rags

/ ræɡz /

plural noun

1. torn, old, or shabby clothing
2. cotton or linen cloth waste used in the manufacture of rag paper
3. from rags to riches informal.
   1. from poverty to great wealth
   2. ( as modifier )

      a rags-to-riches tale

4. glad rags informal.
   best clothes; finery

Example Sentences

Restaurants are closing and car break-ins are so common that people complain that thieves sometimes steal worthless items like old rags.

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McColly had returned to his office in a historic cabin, which now smelled like wet rags and old cigarettes.

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Two games in, the National League Championship Series has now been transformed into something few thought it would ever be, something that should make Dodger fans knot those blue rags around their numbing fingers.

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So Barba and Lerew stepped to the vat and uncovered it, revealing a glutinous stew of rags and vaseline, once integral to the tattoo process; the stew’s age and precise contents are uncertain.

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It began with blue flags flapping from the dugout roofs and blue rags raised and waved through the rollicking full house.

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