"'Ra" meaning in English

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Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} 'Ra
  1. Alternative form of RA (republican army; IRA). Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: RA (extra: republican army; IRA)
    Sense id: en-'Ra-en-name-XlcWM9Pv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "2017, Malachi O'Doherty, Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life",
          "text": "She says, 'It was all Ooo Ah, Up the 'Ra, and the place went ballistic.'",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "2021, Ian Cobain, Anatomy of a Killing",
          "text": "As one volunteer put it: 'When you join the 'Ra, you're told straight up, you'll either spend a lot of time in jail or you'll die.'",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2021, Alan Parks, The April Dead",
          "text": "I'll just tell the 'Ra boys to back off because Harry McCoy's decided his pal Faulds is innocent.",
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          "ref": "2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 248",
          "text": "The fucking 'Ra told me, matter of fact.",
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