ragtag
Plural: ragtags
Noun
- A disorganized, unkempt, or motley group of people.
- disparaging terms for the common people
- A shabby, unkempt person.
Adj
- Unkempt, shabby, or in a state of disrepair.
- Very diverse; having irregular and dissimilar components.
Examples
- He liked to wear an old ragtag coat that was so threadbare that he'd get sunburned through it.
- His collection of leftover tiles felt like a ragtag bunch after his bingos.
- The guerrillas were a ragtag band of local thugs, former soldiers, displaced farmers, and political idealists.
Origin / Etymology
From earlier tag-rag and tag and rag, from rag + tag.
Synonyms
rabble, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff, bedraggled, decrepit, jumbled, motheaten, motley, patchwork, tattered, uneven
Scrabble Score: 8
ragtag: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordragtag: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
ragtag: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary