rag
[verb]
Synonyms: scold, baste, bawl out, bless out, carpet, chew, chew out, jaw, rail, rant, banter, fool, fun, jive, joke, jolly, josh, kid, razz, rib

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. rag¹ /ræɡ/ noun
[Sense 1-4,6: Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old Norse; Origin: rögg 'rough hairiness']
[Sense 5: Date: 1800-1900; Origin: ragtime]

1. CLOTH [uncountable and countable] a small piece of old cloth, for example one used for cleaning things:
He wiped his boots dry with an old rag.
an oily rag

2. NEWSPAPER [countable] informal a newspaper, especially one that you think is not particularly important or of good quality:
He writes for the local rag.

3. in rags wearing old torn clothes:
Children in rags begged money from the tourists.

4. from rags to riches becoming very rich after starting your life very poor:
He likes to tell people of his rise from rags to riches. ⇒ rags-to-riches

5. MUSIC [countable] a piece of ragtime music

6. STUDENTS’ EVENT [countable] British English an event organized by students every year in order to make money for people who are poor, sick etc:
rag week
⇒ glad rags at glad(7), ⇒ like a red rag to a bull at red¹(5), ⇒ lose your rag at lose(11)

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. rag² verb (past tense and past participle ragged, present participle ragging) [transitive]
[Date: 1700-1800; Origin: Origin unknown]
British English old-fashioned to laugh at someone or play tricks on them Synonym : tease

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

rag
noun
ADJ. clean | dirty, filthy, oily, old | bloodstained
QUANT. bundle, heap, pile He noticed what looked like a bundle of rags beside the road.
VERB + RAG wipe sth (off) with | be wrapped in The gun was wrapped in a dirty rag.
PREP. on a/the ~ He wiped his hands on an oily rag.
with a ~ I cleaned the board with an old rag.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

rag
̈ɪræɡ
See: chew the fat or chew the rag , glad rags

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

RAG
Red/Amber/Green report (quick status of a program/project)

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