Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US) to dazzle, to deceive.

1889		Eve. World (NY) 1 Mar. 1/1: When you are introduced to a man and he steals your watch, he razzle-dazzles you.
1889		(con. 1860s) Eve. World (NY) 1 Mar. 1/1: I first heard ‘razzle-dazzle’ about thrirty years ago as a gag by [...] an Irish comedian [...] [he] played the lover and fooled the ‘ould man’ who he said he had razzle-dazzled.
1890		A.C. Gunter Miss Nobody of Nowhere 158: I’m going to razzle-dazzle the boys at the Stuyvesant with my great lightning change act.
1900		A.H. Lewis ‘Mulberry Mary’ in Sandburrs 9: Billy springs his wad on Mary an’ counts d’bills off slow t’inkin it’ll razzle-dazzle her.
1934		O. Strange Sudden 220: No, sir, we’ve razzle-dazzled that triflin’ relative o’ yores this time.
1940		O. Strange Sudden Takes the Trail 5: Reckon we’ve razzle-dazzled ’em, ol’ hoss.
1954		J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (1955) 162: How you razzle-dazzled the Patron out of twenty-five dollars I don’t know.

2. to harass, to pressurize.

1889		Eve. World (NY) 1 Mar. 1/1: There is no razzle-dazzling in this office [...] However, if a man gets so tangled up that he does not know what he is doing, he is razzle-dazzled.
1928		J. Callahan Man’s Grim Justice 43: The keepers razzle-dazzled me for breakfast, dinner and supper and the more they razzle-dazzled me the more unregenerate I became.

3. (US black) to hang around, to loiter.

1983

R. Klein Jailhouse Jargon and Street Sl. [unpub. ms.].

4. (US black) to pretend something has happened or is happening when in fact nothing is.

1983

R. Klein Jailhouse Jargon and Street Sl. [unpub. ms.].