hellraisers and hit on the girls

[kjc0123]

What is the meaning of "hellraisers" and "hit on the girls" in the following sentences?

Teaching keeps you young, they all said, perhaps energetic and mentally sharp, but what Ray wanted was to sit on a cooler out there with the hellraisers and hit on the girls.

[flaming]

I would take this to mean that Ray wanted to be with those who were just hanging about boozing and perhaps other things, and that he wanted to either look, flirt or cuddle  the girls.  A 'hellraiser' is a wild boy or man who does all the wine-women-song thing to excess, including swearing and getting into fights because of the drink.

Film stars Richard Harris and Oliver Reed (both now dead) were always known as 'hellraisers' when they were written about, as they carried on doing every vice to excess and didn't care what people thought.  Raising hell, in fact!

[Peter Pedant]

A hell raiser in class is the bad boy who raises hell = makes alot of noise.

Hit on the girls is to make eyes at them, stare at them, pick your nose, whistle, howl like a dog and generally be a pain in the backside.

Raising hell has been around for a long time. Dashwood a rich but evil landowner in the 1780s was the founder of the Hell Fire club. They of course got drunk and kissed girls.

In 1610 - 1615 - just after Shakespeare, they were called Roaring Boys. (Lions roar, a bit like dogs which bark or howl) A roaring boy figures in one of Jonson's play, Bartholomew Fair or the alchemist