Definitions for rag

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IPA: /ræg/

Rag is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in rag (agr).

Definitions for rag

noun

1. a worthless piece of cloth, especially one that is torn or worn.
2. rags, ragged or tattered clothing:
3. any article of apparel regarded deprecatingly or self-deprecatingly, especially a dress:
4. a shred, scrap, or fragmentary bit of anything.
5. Informal. something of very low value or in very poor condition. a newspaper or magazine regarded with contempt or distaste:
6. a person of shabby or exhausted appearance.
7. a large roofing slate that has one edge untrimmed.
8. British. an act of ragging.
9. a musical composition in ragtime:

Idioms

1. chew the rag. chew (def 11).
2. from rags to riches, from extreme poverty to great wealth:

verb (used with object)

1. to scold.
2. to subject to a teasing, especially in an intense or prolonged way (often followed by on):
3. British. to torment with jokes; play crude practical jokes on.
4. to break up (lumps of ore) for sorting.
5. to play (music) in ragtime.

Origin of rag

1275-1325; Middle English ragge Scandinavian; compare Norwegian, Swedish ragg coarse hair Old Norse rǫgg

Examples for rag

You'll feel like a rag by to-morrow, and then I hope you'll take a good rest.

Then Ziegler tosses the buff LaBeouf around like a rag doll.

Urban children kick a can on concrete and rural kids kick a rag wrapped around a rag wrapped around a rag, barefoot, on dirt.

We set it, double-reefed, which made it but a rag of a sail, and yet the ship felt it directly.

Dra—— the owld man, but he'll have every rag off the back of me!

The next photo: 389 stands holding hands with a man slightly out of frame—a giant of a man—whose eyes are blindfolded with a rag.

"I suppose that depends on your definition of fame—and of a rag," Eric answered.

That Westbrook would be sitting front row at the rag Bone and Altuzarra shows during New York Fashion Week?

Every rag of raiment that man has on he stole from my husband's wardrobe at the Hall.

He stuck the barrel of the gun out his window and started wiping it down with a rag.