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Tag-rag   Listen
noun
Tag-rag  n., adj.  The lowest class of people; the rabble. Cf. Rag, tag, and bobtail, under Bobtail. "If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, I am no true man."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Tag-rag" Quotes from Famous Books



... Kilda. One Sunday morning I made a discovery—a small sheet of water, glittering in the sunshine, and I long gazed admiringly on the countless insects and plants about its edges. It was confessedly neither broad nor deep, and a certain tag-rag indefiniteness of outline gave occasion afterwards to envious anti-Prahraners all about to make it out as only a swamp. The little thing had much badgering to endure in this way in Prahran's early progress. Later on, I saw it as a sort of central reserve of the ever-rising Prahran. ...
— Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne & Victoria • William Westgarth

... Gallants, men and women, And of all sorts, tag-rag, been seen to flock here In threaves, these ten weeks, as to a second Hogsden, In days of Pimlico ...
— The Alchemist • Ben Jonson



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