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ragtag

[ rag-tag ]

adjective

  1. ragged rag ragged or shabby; disheveled.
  2. made up of mixed, often diverse, elements:

    a ragtag crowd.



ragtag

/ ˈræɡˌtæɡ /

noun

  1. derogatory.
    the common people; rabble (esp in the phrase ragtag and bobtail )


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Word History and Origins

Origin of ragtag1

First recorded in 1880–85; rag 1 + tag 1

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Word History and Origins

Origin of ragtag1

C19

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Example Sentences

Their only obstacle is an underfunded, ragtag group of locals who want to preserve the environment.

Wildlings: The name given to the ragtag barbarians (see: free folk) who live north of the Wall.

The former senator with the ragtag operation has been the streaky candidate who falls just short of winning the big ones.

He dreams about them, theorizes about them, talks about them with every fellow ragtag con man he encounters.

While ragtag fighters duked it out on the ground, an elite crew of NATO planes ran the show from the sky.

Without the populace having any hand in it, the ragtag and bobtail of the strangers became bolder and shouted more and more.

We had thirty men with us, a more or less ragtag lot, picked up anyhow in the bazaars.

Strange, too, he came of good family; good blood in his veins; and yet he seems to have gone right down with the ragtag.

And so, along with the rest of the coastwise ragtag, which was seeking harbor and holding-ground, came the ancient schooner Polly.

To make myself amiable and pay court to all the ragtag and bobtail is not in my line.

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