What is the meaning of RAGS. Phrases containing RAGS
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Fancy clothes
Rags is slang for clothes.
Tat is slang for rubbish.Tat is old slang for collecting old rags for profit.
Noun. One's finest and dressiest clothes.
best clothes ‘She’s in her glad rags.’.¬
Tanner (sixpence). Lend us a sprarsy - I wanna get some toe-rags (cigarettes)
Clothes
Fag (cigarette). Lend us a sprarsy - I wanna get some toe-rags. Toe-rags refer to the rags people used to wrap around their feet when they didn't have shoes... we used to call our socks toe-rags which is probably the same origin. He also says his old dad used to call some people a toe-rag and suspects it might have been an insult (reference to fag = queer). Toe rag couls also refer to a small time petty thief, in his words "the sort of dirty little toe rag who would live next door and break into your house and nick the Christmas presents", "term is commonly used, at least in Scotland, meaning just a bit stronger than "rascal" and probably spelled without the e: 'You little torag.' I always thought it did come from terms used to refer to travelling people.
Lose a friendship with a shipmate. From the days when cleaning materials were shared between sailors.
Rag it is slang for push to the limits. Usually applied to driving a vehicle. E.g.He always rags it when hes in a hire car.
Noun. Clothes. See 'rag trade'.
"going out on the town" clothes.
to inhale ordinary household products to get high. Users huff directly from the container or from inhalant-soaked rags, socks, or rolls of toilet paper. Inhalants include model airplane glue, nail polish remover, cleaning fluids, hair spray, gasoline, the propellant in aerosol whipped cream, spray paint, fabric protector, air conditioner fluid (freon), cooking spray and correction fluid.
Verb. Push to the limits. Usually applied to driving a vehicle. E.g."He always rags it when he's in a hire car."
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To take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; -- often with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up information.
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A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait.
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A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber.
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To rend or tear into rags; -- used chiefly in the past participle as an adjective.
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A receptacle for rags or shreds.
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One who gets a living by picking up rags and refuse things in the streets.
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One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker.
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A man who collects, or deals in, rags.
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A place where rags are bought and kept for sale.
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A person clad in rags and tatters.
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A woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low, vulgar woman.
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To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp.
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A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.
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Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.
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A fibrous material obtained by "deviling," or tearing into fibers, refuse woolen goods, old stockings, rags, druggets, etc. See Mungo.
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A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.
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A fibrous material obtained by deviling rags or the remnants of woolen goods.
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A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wood, or other fibrous material, which is first reduced to pulp, then molded, pressed, and dried.
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