rake

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Right there and then a loud and sound go fuck a rake and fuck off.

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Quick take

a dissolute man in fashionable society

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of rake gathered in one view.

noun

a dissolute man in fashionable society

noun

degree of deviation from a horizontal plane; "the roof had a steep pitch"

noun

a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for rake.

noun

a dissolute man in fashionable society

See also: rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue

noun

degree of deviation from a horizontal plane; "the roof had a steep pitch"

noun

a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil

verb

move through with or as if with a rake; "She raked her fingers through her hair"

verb

level or smooth with a rake; "rake gravel"

verb

sweep the length of; "The gunfire raked the coast"

verb

examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"

verb

gather with a rake; "rake leaves"

verb

scrape gently; "graze the skin"

Example sentences

Right there and then a loud and sound go fuck a rake and fuck off.

I cringe every time I wait for "bundle exec {rails console|rails server|rake|cap}".

If you're familiar with Ruby, it's the equivalent of the "rake", "gem", "rails", and "cap" commands all rolled into one.

I get that they're incredibly successful, and rake in tons of money, but this is not something I want any part of.

Well, we know enough to know how to increase stability - primarily by increasing trail and rake.

A tiny minority of people rake in money on ads, which frees up the vast majority of engineers to work on other stuff.

Those who revel in manipulating others and standing on their broken bodies will rake in all the profits while the good guys just sit around and "play nice.

These crony capitalists pay over some money to the politicians, but these extreme barriers to competitive entry in many fields allow them to rake in the profits.

" However they have an aggressive and lucrative affiliate program that would see them paying out as much as 1/3 of a players lifetime rake to the entity that referred them to the site.

They continue to spend most of their resources working on Minecraft despite the fact that they are both working on other games now and could sit on their thumbs and rake in the cash on Minecraft if they wanted.