glad rags plural noun (informal)

Best clothes, dress clothes

glad of

1. Glad to have
2. Glad because of

rag¹ /rag/

noun

1. A worn, torn or waste scrap of cloth
2. A tatter
3. A shred, scrap or tiny portion
4. A farthing (old slang)
5. A jagged projection
6. A flag, handkerchief, sail, theatre curtain, garment, newspaper, or paper money (derogatory or joc)
7. The pithy part of an orange, lemon, etc
8. A worthless or beggarly person
9. A person in a state of exhaustion
10. (in pl) tattered clothing
11. Ragtime, or a piece of ragtime music

adjective

Of, for or dealing in rags

transitive verb (raggˈing; ragged /ragd/)

1. To tear to rags
2. To make ragged
3. To perform in ragtime

intransitive verb

1. To become ragged, to fray
2. To dress (with out or up; old US sl)

ragged /ragˈid/ adjective

1. Shaggy
2. Rough-edged
3. Jagged
4. Made or performed unevenly
5. Raguly (heraldry)
6. Torn or worn into rags
7. Wearing ragged clothes

raggˈedly adverb

raggˈedness noun

raggˈedy adjective

Ragged-looking

raggˈery noun

1. Rags or ragged people collectively
2. Clothes, esp women's (slang)
3. Raggedness

raggˈy adjective

1. Rough
2. Ragged
3. Of the nature of a rag

rag-and-boneˈ-man noun

A person who collects or deals in goods of little value, eg old clothes, furniture, etc

rag baby noun (archaic)

A rag doll

ragˈbag noun

1. A bag for rags and thrown-away garments
2. A random or confused collection (figurative)
3. A slattern

ragˈbolt noun

A bolt with barbs to prevent withdrawal

ragˈ-book noun

A child's book printed on cloth

ragˈ-bush noun

A bush to which shreds of cloth are tied as offerings to the local spirit, often near a well

rag doll noun

1. A doll made of rags
2. A slattern

ragˈ-dust noun

Finely divided rags, used for making flock-paper

ragˈ-fair noun

1. An old-clothes market
2. A kit inspection (milit sl)

ragged-laˈdy noun

A garden flower (Nigella damascena) of the buttercup family having blue or white flowers, love-in-a-mist

ragged Robin noun

A campion (Lychnis floscuculi) with ragged-edged petals

ragged school noun (historical)

A voluntary school for destitute children in the 19c

ragged staff noun (heraldry)

A stick with branch stubs

ragˈhead noun (derog sl; offensive)

An Arab

ragˈman noun

1. A person who collects or deals in rags
2. A devil (obsolete)

ragˈ-money noun (slang)

Paper money

ragˈ-out noun

1. A newspaper article or headline reproduced in a later issue with a ragged edge as if torn out
2. An unofficial strike (slang)

rag paper noun

Paper made from rags

ragˈpicker noun

A person who collects rags from bins, heaps, etc

ragˈ-roll transitive verb

ragˈ-rolling noun

A technique, used in house decoration, of rolling a folded cloth over a specially painted surface to produce a randomly shaded effect

rags-to-richˈes adjective

(of a story, etc) describing a person's progression from poverty to wealth

ragˈtag noun

The rabble (also raggˈle-taggˈle)

adjective

1. Of or like the rabble
2. Ragged, disorderly

ragˈtime noun

1. A form of jazz music of black American origin, with highly syncopated melody
2. A tune, song or dance in ragtime

ragˈtimer noun

ragˈtop noun (US informal)

1. A folding canvas roof on a sports car
2. A car with this, a convertible

rag trade noun (informal)

The trade concerned with designing, making and selling clothes

ragˈ-trader noun (informal).

ragˈweed noun

1. Ragwort
2. Any species of the composite genus Ambrosia (US)

ragˈwheel noun

1. A toothed wheel
2. A polishing-wheel made of cloth discs clamped together

ragˈ-woman noun

ragˈ-wool noun

Shoddy

ragˈworm noun

A pearly white burrowing marine worm (Nereis diversicolor) used as bait by fishermen

ragˈwort noun

1. A common coarse yellow-headed composite weed (Senecio jacobaea) of pastures
2. Any similar species of the genus Senecio with long rays (from the cut leaves)

glad rags see under glad¹

on the rag (N American and Aust slang)

Menstruating

rag-tag and bobtail

Riff-raff