Definition of "rapscallion" [rap•scal•lion]

• A rascal; a scamp. (noun)

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• "If that is a compliment, then a rapscallion is a hip-hop onion."
• "Shadow - it was funny how many words some of my housemates had never heard of, such as rapscallion, smite and score as in four-score and ten - which I idiotically missed off the list!"
• "It is precisely such nomadic notions as these that we have to thank for all kind of rapscallion pranks, for all uproars and broken windows."