Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rag on

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English

Syllables: rag on
IPA

6

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To ridicule, to make fun of (someone).

Canadian usage; American usage; Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."
"From back at the mill came the sounds of men laughing and joking about how dumb Joe Reese had been. ¶ Their humor disgusted him. Reese had been careless, and it had cost him his life. There wasn’t any call for them to rag on him now."

Etymology

Compare rag (“to tease, torment”).

Usage

Inflected Forms

rags on (present, singular) ragging on (participle, present) ragged on (participle, past) ragged on (past)

Questions

What does rag on mean?: To ridicule, to make fun of (someone).
Where does rag on come from?: Compare rag (“to tease, torment”).

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