rajamuffin

plural rajamuffins

1. slanguncommonSynonym of Raggastani.

   People’re always tryin to stick a label on our scene. That’s the problem with havin a fuckin scene. First we was rudeboys, then we be Indian niggas, then rajamuffins, then raggastanis, Britasians, fuckin Indobrits.

   2006, Gautam Malkani, Londonstani, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 5

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   What results is a polyvocal, rajamuffin sound that illustrates the ways in which the creolisation process, more familiarly studied in the context of the colonies of Britain, assumes new dynamics in the very belly of the beast of Empire.

   2004 February 15, Carolyn Cooper, “Mix Up the Indian with all the Patwa: Rajamuffin Sounds in ‘Cool’ Britannia”, in Language and Intercultural Communication, volume 4, numbers 1-2, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 81–99

   Synonyms: Raggastani