shag-rag

English

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Noun

shag-rag

1. (slang, archaic) The unkempt and ragged part of the community.
   • 1875, Robert Browning, Aristophanes’ Apology […], London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 130:

     She finds he makes the shag-rag hero-race, / The noble slaves, wise women, move as much / Pity and terror as true tragic types: […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “shag-rag”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• ghagras