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rake2

Pronunciation: /reɪk/

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Definition of rake

noun

a fashionable or wealthy man of immoral or promiscuous habits: a merry Restoration rake

Phrases

a rake's progress: a progressive deterioration, especially through self-indulgence: his downfall was a rake’s progress of late nights and seedy bars
[from the title of a series of engravings by Hogarth (1735)]