Definition of rags

"rags" in the noun sense

1. rag, shred, tag, tag end, tatter

a small piece of cloth or paper

2. rag, rag week

a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities

3. ragtime, rag

music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano)

4. tabloid, rag, sheet

newspaper with half-size pages

5. rag

a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students)

"rags" in the verb sense

1. torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate

treat cruelly

"The children tormented the stuttering teacher"

2. annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil

cause annoyance in disturb, especially by minor irritations

"Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"

"It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"

3. rag

play in ragtime

"rag that old tune"

4. tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride

harass with persistent criticism or carping

"The children teased the new teacher"

"Don't ride me so hard over my failure"

"His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie"

5. call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast

censure severely or angrily

"The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"

"The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"

"The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"

6. rag

break into lumps before sorting

"rag ore"

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Quotations for rags

Mendings are honourable, rags are abominable. [ Proverb ]

Content with poverty, my soul I arm;
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. [ Dryden after Hor ]

Fortune in men has some small difference made.
One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. [ Pope ]

Better go to Heaven in rags than to Hell in embroidery. [ Proverb ]

Fathers that wear rags do make their children blind:
But fathers that bear bags shall see their children kind. [ William Shakespeare ]

When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple. [ Thoreau ]

Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato. [ Swift ]

Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so true genius will shine, even through the coarsest style. [ Colton ]

Through tattered clothes small vices do appear: robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw doth pierce it. [ William Shakespeare ]

Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. [ Chesterfield ]

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanketmaking and tailoring we must set people to work at, not lace. [ Ruskin ]

I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. You don't have to tell me, I said. I'm off the team, aren't I? Well, said Coach, you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times. It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

I was walking in the street, a beggar stopped me, — a frail old man. His inflamed, tearful eyes, blue lips, rough rags, disgusting sores . . . oh, how horribly poverty had disfigured the unhappy creature! He stretched out to me his red, swollen, filthy hand. He groaned and whimpered for alms. I felt in all my pockets. No purse, watch, or handkerchief did I find. I had left them all at home. The beggar waited and his out-stretched hand twitched and trembled slightly. Embarrassed and confused, I seized his dirty hand and pressed it. Don't be vexed with me, brother; I have nothing with me, brother. The beggar raised his bloodshot eyes to mine; his blue lips smiled, and he returned the pressure of my chilled fingers. Never mind, brother, stammered he; thank you for this — this, too, was a gift, brother. I felt that I, too, had received a gift from my brother. [ Ivan Tourgueneff ]

rags in Scrabble®

The word rags is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters rags:

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rags in Words With Friends™

The word rags is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters rags:

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Words containing the sequence rags

Words that start with rags (1 word)

Words with rags in them (3 words)

Word Growth involving rags

Shorter words in rags

ag rag

Longer words containing rags

brags outbrags

bullyrags

crags scrags

defrags

dishrags

drags dragster dragsters

drags footdrags

drags outdrags

drags redrags

dustrags

sprags

washrags