Definition from Wikipedia: “The term ragamuffin (or raggamuffin) is used to refer to a child clothed in shabby, ill-fitting or dirty clothes. More generally it can also be used as a pejorative term to refer to a ragged, disreputable person… The word is believed to have originated either from the Middle English “Ragamoffyn”, which is the name of a demon in the poem Piers Plowman by William Langland, or from the Middle English “Ragamuffyn”, which was a personal name derived from raggi (ragged) and the Middle Dutch moffel or muffe (mitten).

In the 1980s, however, particularly in West London and Brixton, the word took on a new meaning, that of a dangerous, disaffected, black teenage or young adult male. Ragamuffins or ‘Raggas’ prided themselves on violently attacking white males, often with knives, frequently on the grounds of claims of racism. Ragamuffins typically dressed in hooded tops, jeans and Nike or Adidas trainers, and listened to electro and early hip hop music.”

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