RAG


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Rag or rags may refer to:

Common meanings

  • Rag (newspaper), a derogatory term for a sensationalist or tabloid newspaper
  • Rag, a tattered piece of cloth

Places

  • Rags Brook, Hertfordshire, England, a tributary of the River Lea

People

  • Rags (nickname)
  • Ravi Khote or "Rags", an Indian singer
  • Ēriks Rags (born 1975), a Latvian javelin thrower

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

  • Rags (1915 film), a silent film
  • Rags (2012 film), a Nickelodeon original film

Music

  • Rag, a piece of ragtime music
  • Rags (EP), by EarthGang (2017)
  • Rags, a former name of the band Tin Huey
  • Rags, a 2017 album by EarthGang

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Rags (musical), a 1986 Broadway musical
  • Rags (novel), a 2001 Doctor Who novel
  • Rags, a dog on Spin City, a television show
  • The Rag, an underground paper published in Austin, Texas from 1966–1977

Other uses

  • Rag (student society), a student fundraising charitable group
  • Rag (typography), the ragged edge of a block of text
  • Ragioniere, abbr. rag., Italian honorific for a school graduate in business economics
  • Rags (dog) (1916–1936), 1st Infantry Division (United States) mascot in World War I

See also

  • RAG (disambiguation) for acronyms and initialisms
  • Raga, Indian classical music mode
  • Ragging, a form of abuse similar to hazing in educational institutions in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka
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