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rag

1  [rag]
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–noun
1. a worthless piece of cloth, esp. one that is torn or worn.
2. rags, ragged or tattered clothing: The tramp was dressed in rags.
3. any article of apparel regarded deprecatingly or self-deprecatingly, esp. a dress: It's just an old rag I had in the closet.
4. a shred, scrap, or fragmentary bit of anything.
5. Informal.
a. something of very low value or in very poor condition.
b. a newspaper or magazine regarded with contempt or distaste: Are you still subscribing to that rag?
6. a person of shabby or exhausted appearance.
7. a large roofing slate that has one edge untrimmed.
—Idioms
8. chew the rag. chew (def. 11).
9. from rags to riches, from extreme poverty to great wealth: He went from rags to riches in only three years.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME ragge < Scand; cf. Norw, Sw ragg coarse hair < ON rǫgg
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2  [rag] verb, ragged, rag⋅ging, noun Informal.
–verb (used with object)
1. to scold.
2. to subject to a teasing, esp. in an intense or prolonged way (often fol. by on): Some of the boys were ragging on him about his haircut.
3. British. to torment with jokes; play crude practical jokes on.
–noun
4. British. an act of ragging.
Origin:
1790–1800; orig. uncert.

rag

3  [rag]
–verb (used with object), ragged, rag⋅ging.
to break up (lumps of ore) for sorting.
Origin:
1870–75; orig. uncert.

rag

4  [rag] noun, verb, ragged, rag⋅ging.
–noun
1. a musical composition in ragtime: a piano rag.
–verb (used with object)
2. to play (music) in ragtime.
Origin:
1895–1900; shortened form of ragtime
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rag 1   (rāg)   
n.  
    1. A scrap of cloth.
    2. A piece of cloth used for cleaning, washing, or dusting.
  2. rags Threadbare or tattered clothing.
  3. Cloth converted to pulp for making paper.
  4. A scrap; a fragment.
  5. Slang A newspaper, especially one specializing in sensationalism or gossip.
  6. The stringy central portion and membranous walls of a citrus fruit.

[Middle English ragge, from Old English *ragg, from Old Norse *rögg, woven tuft of wool.]
rag 2   (rāg)   
tr.v.   ragged, rag·ging, rags
  1. Slang To tease or taunt. See Synonyms at banter.
  2. Slang To berate; scold.
  3. Chiefly British To play a joke on.
  4. Sports In ice hockey, to maintain possession of (the puck) by outmaneuvering opposing players, especially so as to kill a penalty.
n.   Chiefly British
A practical joke; a prank.

[Origin unknown.]
rag 3   (rāg)   
n.  
  1. A roofing slate with one rough surface.
  2. Chiefly British A coarsely textured rock.

[Origin unknown.]
rag 4   (rāg)   
tr.v.   ragged, rag·ging, rags
To compose or play (a piece) in ragtime.
n.  A piece written in ragtime.

[Perhaps from ragged.]
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