rag week

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rag1 /rag/
noun
  • 1 a piece of old cloth, especially one torn from a larger piece.

    ■ (rags) old or tattered clothes.

  • 2 (rags) the remnants of something.
  • 3 informal a low-quality newspaper.
verb give a decorative effect to by applying paint with a rag.
– phrases
on the rag informal, chiefly N. Amer. menstruating.
lose one's rag Brit. informal lose one's temper.
– origin ME: prob. a back-form. from ragged or raggy.



Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rag2 /rag/
noun Brit.
  • 1 a programme of entertainments organized by students to raise money for charity.
  • 2 informal, dated a prank.
verb (rags, ragging, ragged)
  • 1 make fun of boisterously.
  • 2 rebuke severely.

    ■ (rag on) N. Amer. informal complain about continually.

– origin C18: of unknown origin.



Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rag3 /rag/
noun
  • 1 a large coarse roofing slate.
  • 2 (also ragstone) Brit. a hard coarse sedimentary rock that can be broken into thick slabs.
– origin ME: of unknown origin; later assoc. with rag1.



Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rag4 /rag/
noun a ragtime composition or tune.
– origin C19: perh. from ragged; cf. ragtime.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
raga /ˈrɑːgə, ˈrɑːgɑː/ (also rag /rɑːg/)
noun (in Indian classical music) each of the six basic musical modes which express different moods in certain characteristic progressions.
– origin C18: from Sanskrit, lit. ‘colour, musical tone’.

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