tag-rag

English

Etymology

tag +‎ rag. See tag (“an end”).

Noun

tag-rag (uncountable)

  1. The lowest class of people; the rabble.
    • Shakespeare
      If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, I am no true man.
  • rag, tag and bobtail, ragtag and bobtail

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tag-rag in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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