tag-rag

English

Etymology

tag +‎ rag. See tag (“an end”).

Noun

tag-rag pl (plural only)

(obsolete) The lowest class of people; the rabble.
- 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
  If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, I am no true man.

Related terms

rag, tag and bobtail, ragtag and bobtail, tag, rag and bobtail, tag-rag 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Translations

the rabble

Hindi: रमदू फट्टू (ramdū phaṭṭū)

Anagrams

rag-tag, ragtag

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