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rag-shop

rag-shop noun: a bank (financial institution).

Noun

rag-shop (plural rag-shops)

  1. (obsolete, slang) A bank (financial institution).
    • Downing-street must bow down before Threadneedle, and St Stephen's must crave licence of the Bank. We must not be surprised if the potent Senate of the Rag-shop should vote the Constitution void, and dismiss King, Lords, and Commons, as an expensive pageant, since they have taken our lives...1819, An Authentic Narrative of the Events of the Westminster Election, page 381
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rag, shop.

Forms of rag-shop

pluralrag-shops

Origin of rag-shop

(bank): From the slang term rag (“a banknote”).

Questions about rag-shop

What does rag-shop mean?
Rag-shop means a bank (financial institution).
What part of speech is rag-shop?
Rag-shop is a noun.
What is the plural of rag-shop?
The plural of rag-shop is rag-shops.

Words near rag-shop in the dictionary

  1. rag-dolling
  2. rag-dolls
  3. rag-roll
  4. rag-rolled
  5. rag-rolling
  6. rag-shop
  7. rag-shops
  8. rag-tag
  9. rag-time
  10. raga
  11. raga rock

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