raas!, excl. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

raas! excl.

also rarse! rass! my raas!

[? f. phr. your arse or Du. raas, to rage, to rave; one of the most taboo words in the W.I., it has been banned from public use in the majority of islands]

(W.I./UK black)

an all-purpose abusive term.

1968		A. Salkey Late Emancipation of Jerry Stover (1982) 36: ‘Pure wickedness, man!’ Berto said. ‘Sweet rass!’.
1986		R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 141: Fucking rass! Rass bamba!
1988		S. Selvon Eldorado West One 20: Oh rarse! That look like my mother!
1997		C. Newland Scholar 43: Checkmate my raas!
2007		Skins ser.1 ep.3 [TV script] Raas! Duck out, waste gash.

In exclamations

raas to you!

1. go to hell!

c.1918

cited in Cassidy & LePage Dict. Jam. Eng. (1980).

2. as a pun on sense 1, see you later!

1997–2000

College Sl. Research Project (Cal. State Poly. Uni., Pomona) 🌐 Rasta (interjection) See you later; goodbye.