rag week
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An annual event in many universities where students engage in unusual activities to raise money for charity.
British usage
Example Sentences
- "This week has been the University College Rag Week. The students are given more or less a free hand all the week. They organize a series of revels culminating in a grand procession and collection this afternoon."
- "The only acting that looks like anything but rag week at a bad university is by Billy Hartman as a private detective."
- "Worse than that, too, during Rag Week when the drink flowed quickly and the privy seemes too far to stagger."
- "In truth the gags seldom rise above the level of an undergraduate Rag Week but speed, quickchange wigs and sheer chutzpah from Russell Bentley, pretty blonde Marianne Levy, Joel Brookes and Teddy Lawrence give wicked twists to such as 'Richard and Judaism', a Who Wants to be a Millionaire? contestant whose phone-a-friend is his argumentative Jewish mother, a wondering 'Wandering Jew' and a savage Shylock rehearsal scene."
- "I wouldn't bother trying to get off with her – it's rag week."
Etymology
From rag (“university students society run for charitable fundraising”) + week, possibly from the verb rag (“tease; torment; banter”).