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rag-shops

rag-shops is the plural of rag-shop.

Meaning of rag-shop

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.

Questions about rag-shops

What is rag-shops the plural of?
Rag-shops is the plural of rag-shop.

Words near rag-shops in the dictionary

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

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