A man who is morally loose, short for "rake-hell". It's an old slang, goes back to Elizabethan times or earlier I think.
There's a series of paintings called "the Rake'sProgress", which shows a young man's descent into depravity.
Back in the day, rake used to mean pimp, player, womanizer, a Rick James sort of person. So it's funny now that we call these women hoes, because rakes and hoes go togetherin parties and in garden sheds...
Person One: (seeing a guy with a blonde woman) Didn't he just go out with a redhead yesterday?
Person Two: He's such a rake.
By Kassandra
Rake
verb: Baseball slang, an concise way of saying "hits extremely well."
noun: Slang for "a clutch or good piece of hitting"