razz

1. uncountablecard gamesA version of seven-card stud where the worst poker hand wins (called lowball).

present singular third person razzes · participle present razzing · participle past razzed · past razzed

1. informalTo tease playfully; to heckle.

   No need to look like you're sat on a brush, man, we're only razzin' ya.

   2003 October 3, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, “On the Pull” (6:35 from the start), in Peep Show, season 1, episode 3, Channel 4

   1. informalTo heckle by blowing a raspberry.
2. AustraliaNewfoundlandUKinformalLabradorTo drive a vehicle around aimlessly.

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   Consider, for example, the word razz, used by younger speakers with the meaning 'riding around with friends in a car (or a snowmobile), with no particular goal'. This meaning is not generally familiar to older residents of the province, and is largely unknown in North America. A very similar meaning does, however, occur in Britain and Australia, as in the following British online posting: 81. We find about an exciting new craze that is seeing kids clad in leather from Leamington razzing around on motorbikes. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/features/motor/mini-moto-crazy.shtml).

   2010, Sandra Clarke, Newfoundland and Labrador English, page 151