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Definition of Rag

Rag

To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.

To dance to ragtime music, esp. in some manner considered indecorous.

To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment.

Hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress.

A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.

A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture.

A ragged edge.

A sail, or any piece of canvas.

To become tattered.

To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.

To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.

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Rag Quotations

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
Al Sharpton

I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to put the lipstick on.'
Jennifer Lawrence

I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.
Steve Waugh

Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.
Jack Herer

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Rag Translations

rag in Afrikaans is flard
rag in Danish is pjalt, lap
rag in Dutch is vodje, lomp, lap, tod, lor, vod, flard
rag in Finnish is repale
rag in French is chiffon
rag in German is Unfug, Lappen
rag in Italian is lobo
rag in Latin is pannus
rag in Norwegian is klut
rag in Portuguese is pano
rag in Spanish is trapo

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