Rag, rags, RAG or The Rag may refer to:

Common uses

  • Rag, a piece of old cloth
  • Rags, tattered clothes
  • Wash rag
  • Rag (newspaper), a publication engaging in tabloid journalism
  • Rag paper

Arts and entertainment

Film

  • Rags (1915 film), a silent film
  • Rags (2012 film), a modernization of the Cinderella fairy tale

Music

  • Rag, a piece of ragtime music
  • Rags (musical), a 1986 Broadway musical
  • Ruhrpott AG, a German hip hop group
  • Rags, a former name of the band Tin Huey
  • Rags (EP), by EarthGang, 2017

Other uses in arts and entertainment

  • Rags (novel), a 2001 Doctor Who novel
  • Rags, a dog character in TV show Spin City

Businesses

  • RAG AG, a German coal mining corporation
  • RAG Austria AG, a gas storage operator in Austria

People

  • Rags (nickname), a list of people
  • Ēriks Rags (born 1975), Latvian javelin thrower

Places

  • Rag Island, Seal Islands group, Australia
  • Rag River, County Cavan, Ireland
  • Rags Brook, a tributary of the River Lea in England

Other uses

  • Royal Galician Academy (Galician: Real Academia Galega), A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, dedicated to the study of Galician culture and language
  • The Rag, an underground paper in Austin, Texas, 1966–1977
  • Rag (student society), a student-run charitable fundraising group
  • Rag (typography), the ragged edge of a block of text
  • Recombination-activating gene, encoding enzymes RAG-1 and RAG-2
  • RAG rating (Red, Amber, Green), a traffic light rating system
  • Rags (dog) (1916–1936), 1st Infantry Division (United States) mascot in World War I
  • The Rag (club), alternative name for the Army and Navy Club in London
  • RAGS International, later Messiah Foundation International, a spiritual organisation
  • Ragioniere or rag., an Italian honorific for a school graduate in business economics
  • Retrieval-augmented generation, generative artificial intelligence with the addition of information retrieval capabilities

See also

  • Raga (disambiguation) or raag, a melodic framework for improvisation in Indian classical music
  • Ragging, hazing in higher education institutions in the Indian subcontinent