tag-rag
nounEtymology From tag + rag. See tag (“an end”).
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Obsolete The lowest class of people; the rabble or commoners.
- If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, I am no true man.1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- Derived terms
- tagraggery
- Related terms
- rag, tag and bobtail, ragtag and bobtail, tag, rag and bobtail, tag-rag and bobtail