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  • 1The Rag — Pioneering Underground Paper from Austin = The Rag was an underground paper published in Austin, Texas from 1966 1977. The sixth member of the Underground Press Syndicate, The Rag was one of the most influential of the early underground papers …

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  • 2The Rag Trade — is a British television sitcom transmitted by the BBC between 1961 and 1963.The scripts were written by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, who later wrote Wild, Wild Women , which was a period variation of The Rag Trade .The actions centred around… …

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  • 3The Rag and Bone Shop — (2001) is a book written by Robert Cormier. The book was published posthumously in 2001; Cormier died in 2000.infobox Book | name = The Rag and Bone Shop title orig = translator = image caption = author = Robert Cormier illustrator = cover artist …

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  • 4the rag trade — UK US noun [S] INFORMAL COMMERCE ► the business of making and selling clothes: »He finally got started in the rag trade, peddling clothes out of a hand cart …

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  • 5the rag trade — chiefly Brit informal : the business of designing, making, and selling clothes : the fashion industry • • • Main Entry: ↑rag trade …

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  • 6(the) rag trade — the rag trade UK US noun very informal the clothing industry Thesaurus: specific industries in the dictionaryhyponym fashion industryhyponym …

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  • 7Battle for the Rag — Teams LSU Tigers Tulane Green Wave Originated 1893 Series LSU leads 69–22–7 L …

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  • 8be on the rag — v. be menstruating; be having one s period. She s on the rag, so sex was out of th question …

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  • 9(the) rag —    British a brothel    British Indian Army use, perhaps from the slang name of the London Army and Navy Club:     In this brothel, or Rag as it was called by the troops...(F. Richards, 1936) …

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  • 10the rag trade — UK / US noun very informal the clothing industry …

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