Rag Explained

Rag, rags, RAG or The Rag may refer to:

Common uses

• Rag, a piece of old cloth
• Rags, tattered clothes
• Wash rag, a small cloth used for bathing
• Rag (newspaper), a publication engaging in tabloid journalism
• Rag paper, or cotton paper

Arts and entertainment

Film

• Rags (1915 film), a silent film
• Rags (2012 film), a modernization of the Cinderella fairy tale

Music

• Rag, a piece of ragtime music
• Rags (musical), a 1986 Broadway musical
• Ruhrpott AG, a German hip hop group
• Rags, a former name of the band Tin Huey
• Rags (EP), by EarthGang, 2017

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• Rags (novel), a 2001 Doctor Who novel
• Rags, a dog character in TV show Spin City

Businesses and organisations

• RAG AG, a German coal mining corporation
• RAG Austria AG, a gas storage operator in Austria
• RAGS International, later Messiah Foundation International, a spiritual organisation

People

• Rags (nickname), a list of people known as Rags
• Ēriks Rags (born 1975), Latvian javelin thrower

Places

• Rag Island, in the Seal Islands group, Australia
• Rag River, in County Cavan, Ireland

Other uses

• Royal Galician Academy (Galician: Real Academia Galega), A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
• Rags Brook, a tributary of the River Lea in England
• The Rag, an underground paper in Austin, Texas, 1966–1977
• Rag (student society), a student-run charitable fundraising group
• Rag (typography), the ragged edge of a block of text
• Recombination-activating gene, encoding enzymes RAG-1 and RAG-2
• RAG rating (Red, Amber, Green), a traffic light rating system
• Rags (dog) (1916–1936), 1st Infantry Division (United States) mascot in World War I
• The Rag (club), alternative name for the Army and Navy Club in London
• Ragioniere or rag., an Italian honorific for a school graduate in business economics
• Retrieval-augmented generation, a prompt engineering technique for generative AI

See also

• Raga (disambiguation) or raag, a melodic framework for improvisation in Indian classical music
• Ragging, hazing in higher education institutions in the Indian subcontinent