Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a nipple.

1992		R.C. Cruz Straight Outta Compton 9: Dirty Diana would drop her clothes and creep over with ripe raspberries inside her unbuttoned blouse.
2001		Sun 23 Nov. 1: [headline] Guy Hates It When I Show My Raspberries In Public.
2002		D. Shaw ‘Dead Beard’ at www.asstr.org 🌐 Anyway, by the time I’ve sussed out who she is, Dionne’s stripped down to her eddie grundies and showing off a lovely pair of raspberry ripples.

2. (also vanilla ripple) a disabled person [= cripple].

1977		Ian Dury ‘Blackmail Man’ 🎵 I’m an Irish cripple, a Scottish jew / I’m the blackmail man. / A raspberry ripple, a buckle-my-shoe [etc.].
1983		R. Aven-Bray Ridgey-Didge Oz Jack Lang 51: Vanilla Ripple Cripple.
1988		J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 84: He limped off with the other raspberry ripples laughing to himself.
1997		Irish Indep. 3 Dec. 36/6: The Raspberry Ripple Awards. Prize-giving ceremony for the best and worst portrayals of disabled people in popular entertainment.
2000		Observer Rev. 27 Feb. 16: How’s your mum? She’s a bleeding raspberry (raspberry ripple, cripple).
2001		D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 151/2: raspberry ripple (also raspberry rippler) n. strawberry ripple.
2003		B. Dark Dirty Cockney Rhy. Sl. 90: We lost 5-0 last week. We were playing like a bunch of raspberry ripples.