Rascal

Rascal

Rascal or rascals may refer to:

In music:
* Dizzee Rascal, a solo artist
* The Rascals, an American soul group of the 1960s
* Rascal Flatts, an American country group
* Rascalz, a Canadian hip-hop group
* The Rascals (English band), an English 3-piece indie band from the Wirral, Liverpool

In print, film, or video:
* "Rascal" (book), a 1963 book by Sterling North
** "Rascal" (film), a film that was released in 1969 by Walt Disney Pictures adapting the above book.
** "Araiguma Rascal", a 1977 anime adaptation of the book.
* "Rascals" ("TNG" episode), a sixth-season episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation"

In video games
* "Rascal" (video game), a 1998 platformer game for the Sony PlayStation

In transportation:
* Bedford Rascal, a small van
* Rascal Scooters, a brand of mobility scooter

In weapon systems:
* Rascal (artillery), a highly mobile, long range, high speed, lightweight artillery system
* RASCAL (Helicopter), a highly modified UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopter
* GAM-63 RASCAL, a guided missile

In sports:
* River City Rascals, a minor league baseball team playing in O'Fallon, Missouri as a member of the independent Frontier League

In education:
* Rascal, a mongrel dog who attended Cumberland School of Law in the 1930s and received a Doctorate of Canine Jurisprudence in 1940

In computer science:
* Rascal (Calculator). The Royal Aircraft Establishment Sequence Controlled Calculator, an electronic machine with magnetic drum memory designed to operate on floating-point decimal numbers

Other:
* Rascal gangs, urban gangs in Papua New Guinea
* Rascal is a dog from Beanie Babies 2.0

ee also

* The Little Rascals (disambiguation)


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  • Rascal — Ras cal (r[a^]s kal), n. [OE. rascaille rabble, probably from an OF. racaille, F. racaille the rabble, rubbish, probably akin to F. racler to scrape, (assumed) LL. rasiculare, rasicare, fr. L. radere, rasum. See {Rase}, v.] [1913 Webster] 1. One… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Rascal — Ras cal, a. Of or pertaining to the common herd or common people; low; mean; base. The rascal many. Spencer. The rascal people. Shak. [1913 Webster] While she called me rascal fiddler. Shak. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • rascal — index malefactor Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • rascal — early 14c., rascaile people of the lowest class, rabble of an army, from O.Fr. rascaille outcast, rabble (12c.), perhaps from rasque mud, filth, scab, dregs, from V.L. *rasicare to scrape (see RASH (Cf. rash) (n.)). The singular form is first… …   Etymology dictionary

  • rascal — *villain, scoundrel, blackguard, knave, rogue, scamp, rapscallion, miscreant …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • rascal — [n] person who is unprincipled, does not work hard beggar, blackguard, black sheep*, bully, bum, cad, cardsharp*, charlatan, cheat, delinquent, devil, disgrace, felon, fraud, goodfor nothing*, grafter, hooligan*, hypocrite, idler, imp, liar,… …   New thesaurus

  • rascal — ► NOUN ▪ a mischievous or cheeky person. DERIVATIVES rascality noun rascally adjective. ORIGIN originally in the senses «a mob» and «member of the rabble»: from Old French rascaille rabble …   English terms dictionary

  • rascal — [ras′kəl] n. [ME rascaile < OFr rascaille, scrapings, dregs, rabble < * rasquer, to scrape < VL * rasicare < L rasus: see RAZE] 1. a scoundrel; rogue; scamp: now usually used jokingly or affectionately, as of a mischievous child 2.… …   English World dictionary

  • rascal —    Formerly a word of much stronger meaning than it has today, when it is normally applied to a naughty child, especially a boy. It originally meant a man who was one of the common herd, a rogue, and a knave. ‘You whoreson cowardly rascal,’ used… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

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