rag
/ɹæɡ/ verb C2- To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
- To dance to ragtime music.
He/she/it rags · Past ragged · Past participle ragged · -ing form ragging
Verb forms
- Base form
- rag
- He/she/it
- rags
- Past
- ragged
- Past participle
- ragged
- -ing form
- ragging
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“It’s the Baker Street division of the detective police force,” said my companion, gravely; and as he spoke there rushed into the room half a dozen of the dirtiest and most ragged street Arabs that ever I clapped eyes on.
The moon was sinking behind the hills and the lines of trembling monkeys huddled together on the walls and battlements looked like ragged shaky fringes of things.
Large drops of perspiration were now standing on his brow, while the garments that hung about him were so ragged that one could only guess at the pattern upon which they had originally been fashioned.
“With this needle,” said the abbé, as, opening his ragged vestments, he showed Dantès a long, sharp fish-bone, with a small perforated eye for the thread, a small portion of which still remained in it.
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