razz

Etymology

Clipping of raspberry.

noun

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

verb

1. (informal) To tease playfully; to heckle.
   1. (informal) To heckle by blowing a raspberry.
2. (informal, Newfoundland, Labrador, Britain, Australia) To drive a vehicle around aimlessly.
   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