rag: Meaning and Definition of

rag

1. a worthless piece of cloth, esp. one that is torn or worn.
2. 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. Are you still subscribing to that rag?
1. something of very low value or in very poor condition.
2. 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.
8. See(def. 9).
9. from extreme poverty to great wealth: He went from rags to riches in only three years.

rag

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. to torment with jokes; play crude practical jokes on.

1. an act of ragging.

rag

1. to break up (lumps of ore) for sorting. [1870–75; orig. uncert.]

rag

1. a musical composition in ragtime: a piano rag.

1. to play (music) in ragtime.