A piece of old cloth used for wiping or cleaning.

• A torn or worn scrap of fabric.

Clothes in very poor condition; tattered garments.

• Extreme shabbiness in dress.

A newspaper or magazine regarded as low-quality or sensationalist.

• A disreputable publication.

A ragtime composition, especially a syncopated piano piece.

• An upbeat piece in the ragtime style.

To apply paint with a rag to create texture.

• To decorate a surface using rag-rolling or ragging.

To tease or gently mock someone; to rib.

• Chiefly British and Irish usage.

Initialism for retrieval-augmented generation in AI.

• A method that supplies external sources to improve model responses.