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What (who) is rag - definition
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Rags; RAG; Rag (disambiguation); RAG (disambiguation); Rags (film)
rags
n.
1)a bundle of rags
2) (dressed) in rags
3) (misc.) from rags to riches ('from poverty to prosperity')
Rag
·noun A ragged edge.
II. Rag ·vi To become tattered.
III. Rag ·noun A sail, or any piece of canvas.
IV. Rag ·vt To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
V. Rag ·noun A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
VI. Rag ·vt To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
VII. Rag ·noun Hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress.
VIII. Rag ·noun A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture.
IX. Rag ·add. ·vt To play or compose (a piece, melody, ·etc.) in syncopated time.
X. Rag ·noun A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment.
XI. Rag ·add. ·vt To dance to ragtime music, ·esp. in some manner considered indecorous.
rag
I
n. to chew the rag (slang) ('to chat')
II
v. (slang) (D; tr.) to rag about (they ragged him about his beard)
Examples of use of rag
1. Mariana is able to give birth through her rag doll anatomical design and has a tiny rag doll baby.
2. There‘s a difference between a rag for dusting or for shining shoes or for washing floors, but there‘s also a rag that serves as a flag.
3. Foxx, sporting black sunglasses and a do–rag, smiled brightly.
4. He told the Daily Mirror: "Kate – a nasty old rag.
5. A rescuer emerges ashen, with a rag over his nose.