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rager|ˈreɪdʒə(r)|
Also 5 raiare.
[f. rage v. + -er1.]
a. One who, or that which, rages.
c1440Promp. Parv. 422/1 Raiare (K. ragere), rabiator, rabulus. 1622S. Ward Woe to Drunkards (1627) 6 Wine is a rager and tumultuous make-bate. 1925G. Murray tr. Aeschylus' Eumenides 4 The ragers sleep: the Virgins without love.
b. spec. Austral. ‘An old and fierce bullock or cow that always begins to rage in the stock-yard’ (Morris Austral Eng. 1898).
1884‘R. Boldrewood’ Melb. Mem. xiv. 105 Amongst them was a large proportion of bullocks, which declined with fiendish obstinacy to fatten. They were what are known by the stock-riders as ‘ragers’ or ‘pig-meaters’. 1890― Col. Reformer (1891) 223 The ‘rager’ cuts through the opposing ranks like a dragoon through Chinese infantry.
Add:c. A person who enjoys having a good time; a dedicated party-goer. Cf. *rage v. 4 f. Austral. and N.Z. colloq.
1972J. S. Gunn in G. W. Turner Good Austral. Eng. iii. 55 Copies of pop magazines like Go-set yielded expressions like..lick, mover, rager, [etc.]. 1987TV Week (Melbourne) 28 Mar. 4/1 ‘Look, I've always been a rager,’ she says, shrieking. 1988Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 6 July 21/2 Ragers eat at any time..but..usually between midnight and 5 am, just after the party has finished and before the disco starts. 1988Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 21 Feb. 36/5 Downstairs on the boom-boom floor, the pretty ragers purred and boogied their youth into another dawn. |