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Rab - Obnoxious person, uncouth
Rag Up - To verbally insult and/or make a fool of someone. “He rag up d lil girl oui.”
Raff - To grab suddenly
Ragadang - Broken down
Rage - The latest fashion
Rain must fall – Said when any inevitable situation happens
Raise - A loan
Rake and scrape – The action of accumulating change lying around the house, no matter how insignificant, to purchase something; e.g “I rake and scrape to buy de blender.”
Ram cram - Packed to capacity, e.g. "ram cram like sardines in a can".
Ramjam - (Also: Ramcram) Packed to capacity; e.g “The fete was ramjam with people”.
Ramsack (ransack) - To search through every part of, to search for plunder, chaotic condition.
Rap - Talk
Ratch - To arrive at an answer or end result using dishonest or dubious means
Ratchafee (ratchefee) - A made up kind of job; a scheme
Razzy - Unkempt
Redman - A light skinned person, usually a mixture between European and African ancestry
Reverse back- To reverse, as in: "Ah reverse back meh car.”
Rounders - Playing around, cannot make up your mind- as in going a place or not; e.g. “Doh give meh no seta rounders nah, man.”
Road March - Most popular calypso played during the carnival festivities
Roucou (Oucou) – Annatto, red colouring derived from the achiote tree.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-annatto.htm
Roti - East Indian dish made with flat baked dough resembling a tortilla served with curried beef, chicken, goat, shrimp or other meat with curried potatoes, onions, bodi, ochros, pumpkin, mango, etc. Types: Paratha, dhalpurie, dosti, and sada.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roti
Royal - Usage: To catch one's royal - to be in a lot of trouble
Rude - "Nasty", sexually explicit, vulgar; e.g Rude Boy.
Rumpfle - Ruffled or wrinkled
Usage:
“Like he put he iron on rumpfle this morning.”- His clothes look wrinkled.
Rum Cork - A hard drinker, alcoholic
