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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
riff-raff/ˈrɪfraf/

▶noun disreputable or undesirable people.

– origin C15 (as riff and raff): from OFr. rif et raf ‘one and all, every bit’, of Gmc origin.

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