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Wait until you find out that "lascar" is a 
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It does not stop here though. In recent years, & #39;lascar& #39; has been adopted and popularized in the slang of https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇫🇷" title="Flag of France" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of France"> banlieues and Hip-Hop culture and has taken the broader meaning of & #39;hoodlum& #39;. As such it is frequently used in Rap songs. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⤵️" title="Arrow pointing rightwards then curving downwards" aria-label="Emoji: Arrow pointing rightwards then curving downwards">
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It was therefore also aptly choosen as a title for a somewhat cult animated TV series dealing with the mishaps of disenfrenchised youths from the projects. An English version was apparently aired as "Homiez" in Canada. 3/
As many popular French slang terms, lascar has its own & #39;verlan& #39; (inversion of syllables) form: & #39;scarla& #39; (and its feminine variant & #39;scarlette& #39;)
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Side note: even though & #39;lascar& #39; may now sound like a backward mutation of & #39;rascal& #39; to you, the latter comes from French, in which & #39;racaille& #39; is still frequently used as hoodlum nowadays, which in turn has a Latin origin (& #39;rasicare& #39;, to scrape) https://www.etymonline.com/word/rascal ">https://www.etymonline.com/word/rasc... 5/
