Dictionary Definition
rag
Noun
2 a week at British universities during which
side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money
for charities [syn: rag week]
3 music with a syncopated melody (usually for the
piano) [syn: ragtime]
5 a boisterous practical joke (especially by
college students)
Verb
1 treat cruelly; "The children tormented the
stuttering teacher" [syn: torment, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate]
2 cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by
minor irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers
me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she
leaves" [syn: annoy,
get to,
bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil]
3 play in ragtime; "rag that old tune"
4 harass with persistent criticism or carping;
"The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over
my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket
and tie" [syn: tease,
razz, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride]
5 censure severely or angrily; "The mother
scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy
ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter
for bringing cold soup" [syn: call
on the carpet, rebuke, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down,
call
down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out,
remonstrate,
chew
out, chew
up, have words,
lambaste, lambast]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
- Middle English ragge, from Old English ragg, from Old Norse
rǫgg tuft, shagginess - ca. 14th century
- 7 - Short for ragtime - ca. 1897
Pronunciation
-
- Rhymes: -æɡ
Noun
- A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment.
- Hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress.
- A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
- A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture.
- A ragged edge.
- A sail, or any piece of canvas.
- A piece of ragtime
music.
- The song mapleleaf rag has a pleasant, bouncy tune.
- In the context of "slang|pejorative": A newspaper, magazine.
- In the context of "poker slang": A card that appears to help no one.
- In the context of "poker slang": A low card
Quotations
a coarse kind of rock- 2003: the three walls around the garden, each one of thirty-three feet, were built out of three layers of stome — pebble stone, flint and rag stone. — Peter Ackroyd, The Clerkenwell Tales, 2003, page 1.
Translations
piece of cloth
mean or tattered attire
- Dutch: lompen
shabby, beggarly fellow
coarse kind of rock
ragged edge
sail, or any piece of canvas
- Dutch: zeil, zeildoek
piece of ragtime music
- Dutch: rag
References
- Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
Verb
Preposition
ragDutch
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /rɑx/
Noun
- Spider web.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From rag.Pronunciation
- /ɹæ:g/
Noun
- A piece of ragtime music.
Extensive Definition
Rag or rags may refer to:
- Rag. a title (see Italian honorifics) for people holding high school degrees in business economics.
- Rag (student society), a student fund raising charitable group
- The Student Rags which took place between King's College London and University College London from the 1820s
- Rags (musical), a Broadway musical
- Rags (Doctor Who), a Doctor Who novel
- A piece of ragtime music
- Recombination activating gene, encode enzymes involved in VDJ recombination
- Rag (typography), the ragged edge of a block of text
- Rags and Leathers Program, A YMCA camp program
- Rags (dog) - 1st Infantry Division (United States) mascot in World War I
- Rags (Spin City) - the dog from Spin City television show
- Newspaper
- A piece of textile
- "The rag," a euphemism for menstruation
- The stringy central portion and membranous walls of a citrus fruit.
- Ēriks Rags (born 1975), Latvian javelin thrower
People with the given name Rags:
- Rags Matthews (1905–1999), All-American football player
- Rags Morales, American comic book artist
- Rags Ragland (1905–1946), an American character actor
See also
rag in German: Fetzen
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abuse,
acid rock, act drop, afterglow, afterimage, andante tempo,
apparel, array, asbestos, asbestos board,
attire, avant-garde jazz,
backdrop, balance, ballroom music,
banter, bark at, baste, batten, bawl out, beat, bebop, bedizenment, berate, betongue, blacken, boltrope, bones, boogie-woogie, bop, border, butt, butt end, candle ends,
canvas, carpet, chaff, chew, chew out, clew, cloth, clothes, clothing, compound time,
costume, coulisse, counterweight, country
rock, cringle, crowd of
sail, culm, curtain, curtain board, cyclorama, daily, daily newspaper, dance
music, dances, deadwood, debris, decor, deride, detritus, dishwater, draff, drapery, dregs, dress, dressing, drop, drop curtain, duds, duple time, dust, earing, end, etoffe, execrate, extra, extra edition, fabric, fag end, fashion, fatigues, feathers, felt, fig, filings, fire curtain, flat, flipper, folk rock, fool, foot, fore-and-aft sail, fossil, frock, fulminate against, fun, garb, garbage, garment, garments, gash, gazette, gear, goods, gown, grin at, guise, habiliment, habit, hanging, hard rock, haze, head, hogwash, hold in derision,
holdover, hot jazz,
husks, investiture, investment, jape, jaw, jazz, jest, jive, joke, jolly, josh, kid, lace, largo, laugh at, laugh to scorn,
leavings, leech, lees, leftovers, linen, load with reproaches,
luff, mainstream jazz, make
fun of, make game of, make merry with, march tempo, material, mixed times, musical
suite, muslin, napery, national newspaper,
needle, neighborhood
newspaper, news, newspaper, newspaper of
record, odds and ends, offal, offscourings, old clothes,
orts, pan, paper, parings, pillory, plain sail, play jazz,
point at, poke fun at, potsherds, press of sail,
presto, put on, put one
on, rags, ragtime, rail, rail at, raiment, rally, rant, raspings, rate, rave against, razz, reduced sail, reef point,
reefed sail, refuse,
relics, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, revile, rhythm-and-blues,
rib, ride, ridicule, roach, roast, robe, robes, rock, rock-and-roll, rubato, rubbish, ruins, rump, sail, sawdust, scene, scenery, scourings, scrap iron,
scraps, screen, scum, sextuple time, shadow, shards, shavings, sheet, side scene, silk, simple time, slack, slag, slop, slops, smile at, snicker at,
snigger at, special,
special edition, sportswear, square sail,
stage screw, straw,
stubble, stuff, stump, style, suite, suite of dances, survival, sweepings, swill, swing, syncopate, syncopated music,
syncopation,
syncope, tab, tableau, tabloid, tares, tatters, tease, teaser, tempo, tempo rubato, textile, textile fabric,
texture, the new music,
threads, three-quarter
time, thunder against, time, time pattern, timing, tissu, tissue, togs, toilette, tongue-lash, tormentor, trace, transformation,
transformation scene, trim,
triple time, triplet,
twit, two-four time,
vestige, vestment, vesture, vilify, vituperate, waltz time,
wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, wear, wearing apparel, weave, web, weeds, weekly, weekly newspaper,
weft, wing, wingcut, woodcut, woof, wool, yell at, yelp
at