"rag on" meaning in All languages combined

See rag on on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: rags on [present, singular, third-person], ragging on [participle, present], ragged on [participle, past], ragged on [past]
Etymology: Compare rag (“to tease, torment”). Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} rag on (third-person singular simple present rags on, present participle ragging on, simple past and past participle ragged on)
  1. (chiefly US, Canada, transitive) To ridicule, to make fun of (someone). Tags: Canada, US, transitive

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "Compare rag (“to tease, torment”).",
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      "form": "rags on",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        {
          "ref": "1998, Rafael Hermoso, “Spencer leads subs’ assault”, in New York Daily News, editor, Yankees ’98: Best Ever, →ISBN, page 93:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 204:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Jake Logan, Slocum and the Yellowstone Scoundrel:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "To ridicule, to make fun of (someone)."
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        "(chiefly US, Canada, transitive) To ridicule, to make fun of (someone)."
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        "participle",
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    {
      "form": "ragged on",
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          "ref": "1998, Rafael Hermoso, “Spencer leads subs’ assault”, in New York Daily News, editor, Yankees ’98: Best Ever, →ISBN, page 93:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 204:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Jake Logan, Slocum and the Yellowstone Scoundrel:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "(chiefly US, Canada, transitive) To ridicule, to make fun of (someone)."
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}

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