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What (who) is ragbag - definition
ragbag
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Rag bag; Ragbag; Grab bag (disambiguation); Grabbag
also rag-bag
A ragbag of things is a group of things which do not have much in common with each other, but which are being considered together.
The government was still in effect a ragbag of Social Democrats and Liberals.
N-SING: usu N of n
ragbag
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Rag bag; Ragbag; Grab bag (disambiguation); Grabbag
¦ noun
1. a bag for storing rags and old clothes.
2. a miscellaneous collection.
3. Brit. informal a scruffy woman.
grab bag
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Rag bag; Ragbag; Grab bag (disambiguation); Grabbag
(grab bags)
1.
A grab bag is a game in which you take a prize out of a container full of hidden prizes. (AM; in BRIT, use lucky dip
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)
N-COUNT
2.
A grab bag of things, ideas, or people is a varied group of them.
...a fascinating grab-bag of documents about the life of Liszt.
N-COUNT: usu N of n
Examples of use of ragbag
1. Croydon Secondary Technical School: Has a ragbag mind stuffed with information of no possible interest to anyone but himself.
2. In this ragbag of expenditure, some advisers will no doubt have been worth their weight in (fool s) gold.
3. A ragbag assembly of students, foreigners and part–timers, they played their football at a high school athletics ground in front of row after row of empty seats.
4. Only this week, I ripped my Sweaty Betty track pants and instead of putting them in the ragbag to make dusters, I sewed them up.
5. Uneasy truce Cosatu‘s recruiting arm has replaced them with members from service industries and a ragbag of new affiliates representing bank workers, musicians and sportsmen, among others.