1. A scrap of cloth.
2. A piece of cloth used for cleaning, washing, or dusting.
3. threadbare or tattered clothing.
4. cloth converted to pulp for making paper.
5. A scrap; a fragment.
6. slang A newspaper, especially one specializing in sensationalism or gossip.
7. the stringy central portion and membranous walls of a citrus fruit.
8. on the rag vulgar slang menstruating.
9. on the rag vulgar slang irritable; grouchy.
10. slang to tease or taunt. see synonyms at banter.
11. slang to berate; scold.
12. chiefly british to play a joke on.
13. sports in ice hockey, to maintain possession of (the puck) by outmaneuvering opposing players, especially so as to kill a penalty.
14. chiefly british A practical joke; a prank.
15. A roofing slate with one rough surface.
16. chiefly british A coarsely textured rock.
17. to compose or play (a piece) in ragtime.
18. A piece written in ragtime.

1. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
2. to break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
3. to cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
4. tattered clothes.
5. A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
6. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
7. A ragged edge.
8. A sail, or any piece of canvas.
9. A newspaper, magazine.
10. this sense?) (poker slang) A card that appears to help no one.
11. this sense?) (poker slang) A low card.
12. to scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
13. to drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
14. to tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
15. A prank or practical joke.

1. A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment.
2. hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress.
3. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
4. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture.
5. A ragged edge.
6. A sail, or any piece of canvas.
7. to become tattered.
8. to scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
9. to break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
10. to cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
11. to play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
12. to dance to ragtime music, esp. in some manner considered indecorous.

1. A sharp or jagged fragment rising from a surface or edge: as, a rag on a metal plate; hence, a jagged face of rock; a rocky headland; a cliff; a crag.
2. A rock having or weathering with a rough irregular surface.
3. in botany:
4. A lichen, Sticta pulmonaria (see hazel-crottles).
5. another lichen, Parmelia saxatilis (stone-rag).
6. A catkin of the hazel, or of the willow, Salix caprea. also raw.
7. A torn, worn, or formless fragment or shred of cloth; a comparatively worthless piece of any textile fabric, either wholly or partly detached from its connection by violence or abrasion: as, his coat was in rags; cotton and linen rags are used to make paper, and woolen rags to make shoddy.
8. A worn, torn, or mean garment; in the plural, shabby or worn-out clothes, showing rents and patches.
9. any separate fragment or shred of cloth, or of something like or likened to it: often applied disparagingly or playfully to a handkerchief, a flag or banner, a sail, the curtain of a theater, a newspaper, etc.
10. figuratively, a severed fragment; a remnant; a scrap; a bit.
11. A base, beggarly person; a ragamuffin; a tatterdemalion.
12. A farthing.
13. A herd of colts.
14. in type-founding, the bur or rough edge left on imperfectly finished type.
15. made of or with rags; formed from or consisting of refuse pieces or fragments of cloth: as, rag pulp for paper-making; a rag carpet.
16. in U. S. political slang, the paper currency of the government; greenback money: so called with reference to the contention of the greenback party, before and after the resumption of specie payments in 1879, in favor of making such money a full legal tender for the national debt and all other purposes.
17. to become ragged; fray: with out.
18. to dress; deck one's self: in the phrase to rag out, to dress in one's best.
19. to make ragged; abrade; give a ragged appearance to, as in the rough-dressing of the face of a grindstone.
20. in mining, to separate by ragging or with the aid of the ragging-hammer. see ragging, 2.
21. to banter; badger; rail at; irritate; torment. compare bullyrag.
22. A drizzling rain.
23. an abbreviation of raginee.
24. in botany: the pithy axis and the membranes separating the sections of the orange and other citrus fruits.
25. A coat; a tunic: army slang in india in the last century; still used. also raggie (which see).
26. in oxford university, a noisy, disorderly outbreak, in violation of established regulations: originally peculiar to english university life.

1. censure severely or angrily
2. newspaper with half-size pages
3. treat cruelly
4. cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
5. play in ragtime
6. a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students)
7. a week at british universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities
8. a small piece of cloth or paper
9. harass with persistent criticism or carping
10. music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano)
11. break into lumps before sorting