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Definition rake in British English

rake noun

[countable] noun
/reɪk/
1

a tool for making soil level and removing leaves from the ground, consisting of a long handle with sharp separated points on one end that the soil etc is caught in

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flail fork hoe
2

a man who behaves in an immoral way, for example by having sexual relationships with a lot of women

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Don Juan Casanova womaniser
3

the degree of slope in a surface, for example in the stage of a theatre

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slope tilt incline
4

to make an incautious move that has painful and unexpected consequences

Example

Giuliani has been stepping on rakes all week, and he's basically claimed that Trump gives Cohen lots of money every month and Cohen uses that money to make Trump's problems go away.

Definition rake in British English