: any of various usually black or red edible berries that are aggregate fruits consisting of numerous small drupes on a fleshy receptacle and that are usually rounder and smaller than the closely related blackberries
b
: a perennial plant (genus Rubus) of the rose family that bears raspberries
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[short for raspberry tart, rhyming slang for fart]: a sound of contempt made by protruding the tongue between the lips and expelling air forcibly to produce a vibration
One of the children made a raspberry at him.
there were raspberries from the audience when the hapless actress kept forgetting her lines
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