Rag

Rag or rags may refer to:

  • A torn, threadbare or otherwise inferior piece of textile.
  • A piece of ragtime music.
  • Raga, the musical mode (similar to scale) of a composition in Indian classical music.
  • Rag. a title for people holding high school degrees in business economics, see Italian honorifics
  • Rag (typography), the ragged edge of a block of text.
  • Rag (newspaper), a newspaper that tends to emphasize topics such as sensational crime stories, astrology, gossip columns about the personal lives of celebrities and sports stars
  • The Student Rags which took place between King's College London and University College London from the 1820s.
surname
  • Ēriks Rags (born 1975), Latvian javelin thrower.
given name
  • Rags Matthews (1905–1999), All-American football player.
  • Rags Morales, American comic book artist.
  • Rags Ragland (1905–1946), an American character actor.
as a title or proper name
  • Rags (musical), a Broadway musical.
  • Rags (group of dancers) - a Norwegian group of dancers in the period 1984 - 1992
  • The Rag, an underground paper published in Austin, Texas from 1966–1977.
  • Ravi Khote, or "Rags", Indian singer.
  • Rags (dog) - 1st Infantry Division (United States) mascot in World War I.
  • Rags (Spin City) - the dog from Spin City television show.
  • Ragnarök (MUD), an online role-playing game
  • Rag (student society), a student fund raising charitable group.
  • Rags (Doctor Who), a Doctor Who novel.
  • Rags (film), a Nickelodeon original film
acronym RAGS
Further information: RAG (disambiguation)
  • Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi known as RAGS.
  • Recombination activating gene, encode enzymes involved in VDJ recombination.
  • RAGS International, the former name of the Messiah Foundation International.
slang
  • A slang term for a sanitary napkin used by a menstruating woman while on the rag.
  • The stringy central portion and membranous walls of a citrus fruit.
  • A slang nickname for the Manchester United, used by detractor.
  • Slang for a newspaper, often used in a pejorative sense to describe a tabloid or other down-market publication.
  • A colloquial term for the front curtain of a theater.

Famous quotes containing the word rag:

    “I found my brother’s body at the bottom there, where they had thrown it away on the rocks, by the river. Like an old, dirty rag nobody wants. He was dead. And I felt I had killed him. I turned back to give myself up.... Because if a man’s life can be lived so long and come out this way, like rubbish, then something was horrible, and had to be ended one way or another. And I decided to help.”
    —Abraham Polonsky (b. 1910)

    “Rub a half potato on your wart
    and wrap it in a damp cloth. Close
    your eyes and whirl three times and throw.
    Then bury rag and spud exactly where they fall.”
    —Richard Hugo (1923–1982)

    “He seems like an average type of man. He’s not, like smart. I’m not trying to rag on him or anything. But he has the same mentality I have—and I’m in the eighth grade.”
    —Vanessa Martinez (b. c. 1978)