razz

See also: rázz

English

razz (uncountable)

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

razz (third-person singular simple present razzes, present participle razzing, simple past and past participle razzed)

(informal) To tease playfully; to heckle.
- 2003 October 3, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, “On the Pull” (6:35 from the start), in Peep Show, season 1, episode 3, Channel 4:
  No need to look like you're sat on a brush, man, we're only razzin' ya.
1. (informal) To heckle by blowing a raspberry.
(informal, Newfoundland, Labrador, UK, Australia) To drive a vehicle around aimlessly.
- 2010, Sandra Clarke, Newfoundland and Labrador English‎^[1], page 151:
  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).