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rag week — noun a week at British universities during which side shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities • Syn: ↑rag • Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,… … Useful english dictionary
rag week — noun a) An annual event in many (mainly British) universities where students engage in unusual activities to raise money for charity. The only acting that looks like anything but rag week at a bad university is by Billy Hartman as a private… … Wiktionary
rag week — n British the time during which a woman is men struating, a period . The expression is a play on both on the rag and rag week as signifying a student carnival … Contemporary slang
rag week — ➡ student life * * * … Universalium
rag week — Noun. The period of menstruation, usually with negative connotations of moodyness … English slang and colloquialisms
Rag (student society) — University Rag societies are student run charitable fundraising organisations that are widespread in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Most universities in the UK and Ireland, as well as some in South Africa and The Netherlands have a Rag. In some… … Wikipedia
rag day — noun a day on which university students hold a rag • Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ↑Great Britain • Hypernyms: ↑day … Useful english dictionary
rag — rag1 [ræg] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(cloth)¦ 2¦(newspaper)¦ 3 in rags 4 from rags to riches 5¦(music)¦ 6¦(students event)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [Sense: 1 4,6; Date: 1300 1400; : Old Norse; Origin: rögg rough hairiness ] [Sense: 5; … Dictionary of contemporary English
rag — 1 noun 1 CLOTH (C, U) a small piece of old cloth, for example one used for cleaning things: Can I use this piece of rag for the car? | an oily old rag 2 in rags wearing old torn clothes: an old beggar dressed in rags 3 go from rags to riches to… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
rag(s) on — menstruating Usually had or got: That stupid little cunt... is refusing to work because she s got the rags on. (B. Forbes, 1989 she was an actress, not a prostitute) Rag week, punning on the university fundraising occasion, and… … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
