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    rag
    [raɡ]
    noun
    rag (noun) · rags (plural noun)
    1. a piece of old cloth, especially one torn from a larger piece, used typically for cleaning things:
      "he wiped his hands on an oily rag" · "a piece of rag"
      Similar:
      cloth
      clout
      piece of cloth
      bit/scrap/fragment of cloth
    2. informal
      a newspaper, typically one regarded as being of low quality:
      "the local rag"
    Origin
    Middle English: probably a back-formation from ragged or raggy.
    rag
    [raɡ]
    verb
    rag (verb) · rags (third person present) · ragged (past tense) · ragged (past participle) · ragging (present participle)
    1. make fun of (someone) in a boisterous manner:
      "he ragged me about not smoking or drinking" · "despite the way I sometimes rag her, she is my sister"
    2. rebuke severely:
      "I ragged a restaurant last week for mangling Key lime pie"
    noun
    BRITISH ENGLISH
    rag (noun) · rags (plural noun)
    1. a program of stunts, parades, and other entertainments organized by students to raise money for charity:
      "rag week"
      Similar:
      collection
      fundraising event
      charity event
      charitable event
      • informal
        dated
        a boisterous prank or practical joke.
    Origin
    mid 18th century: of unknown origin.
    rag
    [raɡ]
    noun
    rag (noun) · rags (plural noun)
    1. a large, coarse roofing slate.
    Origin
    late Middle English (in rag): of unknown origin; later associated with rag.
    rag
    [raɡ]
    noun
    rag (noun) · rags (plural noun)
    1. a ragtime composition or tune:
      "he writes marches, waltzes, and rags" · "to learn a rag you must master and memorize four bars at a time"
    Origin
    late 19th century: perhaps from ragged; compare with ragtime.
    rag
    [raɡ]
    noun
    1. variant of raga
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    What is a rag used for?
    You might use a rag to dust the bookshelf or scrub the bathtub, but you wouldn't want to wear one. If your clothes are torn and dirty, they're also rags, and from the sense of "worthless scrap," trashy or low quality newspapers have also long been called rags. A rag is also a somewhat annoying joke, and to rag someone is to annoy or harass them.

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    What does a rag look like?
    A rag is a piece of old cloth which you can use to clean or wipe things. He was wiping his hands on an oily rag. ...a bundle of old rags. It looked like a piece of rag. Rags are old torn clothes. There were men, women and small children, some dressed in rags. People refer to a newspaper as a rag when they have a poor opinion of it.

    RAG definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

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    What is the meaning of rag?
    1. a worthless piece of cloth, esp. one that is torn or worn. 2. rags, ragged or tattered clothing. 3. any article of apparel regarded deprecatingly. 4. a cloth-based pulp used in making high-quality paper, as bond. 5. a shred, scrap, or fragmentary bit of anything. 6. something of very low value or in very poor condition.

    Rag - definition of rag by The Free Dictionary

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    Where did the word Rag come from?
    The origin of this use of the word goes back to the seventeenth century. The OED’s entry for it comes under the category rag used in ‘Senses relating to something compared to a torn piece of cloth’. It is quite possible that early newspapers bore just such a resemblance.

    What is the origin of "rag" meaning newspaper?

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    What does Rag mean in the 20th Century Dictionary?
    Rag. (in the 20th Century Dictionary) a fragment of cloth or: a rock having a rough irregular surface: a remnant, scrap: a beggarly person: anything rent or worn out.—adj. made of rags.—v.t. to make ragged.—v.i. to become ragged, to fray.

    What does rag mean? - Definitions for rag

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    What does Rag mean in a newspaper?
    So while it is natural to assume "rag" refers to a newspaper's raw materials, this is actually the figurative use of "rag" to mean an object of contempt. OED gives evidence that rag came to be used figuratively to mean any small worthless scrap.

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  3. Torn or old piece of cloth
    rag noun [C] (CLOTH) Add to word list a torn piece of old cloth: I keep these rags for cleaning the car. rags [ plural ] clothes that are old and torn: in rags Their clothes were in rags (= torn).

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    rag noun /ræɡ/ /ræɡ/ Idioms [countable, uncountable] a piece of old, often torn, cloth used especially for cleaning things

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    rag 1 [ rag ] Phonetic (Standard) IPA noun a worthless piece of cloth, especially one that is torn or worn.

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