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:

    “... a friend told me that she had read of a woman who had knitted a wash rag for President Wilson. She was eighty years old and her friends thought it remarkable that she could knit a wash rag! I thought that if a woman of eighty could knit a wash rage for a Democratic President it behooved one of ninety-six to make something more than a wash rag for a Republican President.”
    —Maria D. Brown (1827–1927)

    “New York is a woman
    holding, according to history,
    a rag called liberty with one hand
    and strangling the earth with the other.”
    —Adonis [Ali Ahmed Said] (b. 1930)

    “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)