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Film-noir/Hardboiled Novel slang for "get it contact with." The term is derived from the phrase "raise the dead" where "the dead" is a metaphor for an uncommunicative person.
"Where you able to raise your sister?"
"Hey man, do you know what's up with Steve? I can't raise 'im."
"Hey man, do you know what's up with Steve? I can't raise 'im."
by Wonkotehsane December 25, 2008
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