Rag

Rag or rags may refer to:

• A torn, threadbare or otherwise inferior piece of textile.
• A piece of ragtime music.
• Raga, the musical 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

• 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

• On the rag, a euphemistic phrase for a menstruating woman.
• 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.

See also

• RAG (disambiguation)
• Do-rag, a bandanna shaped, folded, and tailored by its manufacturer so as to conform to the wearer's head.
• Ragging, is a form of abuse on newcomers to educational institutions in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, similar to hazing.