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rag on

rag on verb: to ridicule, to make fun of (someone).

Verb

rag on (third-person singular simple present rags on, present participle ragging on, simple past and past participle ragged on)

  1. (Canada, US, transitive) To ridicule, to make fun of (someone).
    • Spencer knew his second homer—a two-run drive in the Yankee’s five-run eighth—was gone well before it landed in the second deck in left field.[…] “They were ragging on me because the first one was close,” Spencer said.1998, Rafael Hermoso, “Spencer leads subs’ assault”, in New York Daily News, editor, Yankees ’98: Best Ever, →ISBN, page 93
    • They was saying the jawn freaked out and called the cops cause all her sorority sistahs started ragging on her and calling her a stank ho for fucking half the basketball team.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 204

Forms of rag on

third-person singular presentrags on
present participleragging on
past participleragged on
pastragged on

Origin of rag on

Compare rag (“to tease, torment”).

Questions about rag on

What does rag on mean?
Rag on means to ridicule, to make fun of (someone).
What part of speech is rag on?
Rag on is a verb.
What is the past tense of rag on?
The past tense of rag on is ragged on.

Words near rag on in the dictionary

  1. rag day
  2. rag days
  3. rag doll
  4. rag dolls
  5. rag off
  6. rag on
  7. rag out
  8. rag paper
  9. rag papers
  10. rag pudding
  11. rag puddings

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