rag on

verb

To ridicule, to make fun of (someone).

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Meanings

verbrag on (third-person singular simple present rags on, present participle ragging on, simple past and past participle ragged on)

present singular third person rags on · participle present ragging on · participle past ragged on · past ragged on

  1. CanadaUStransitiveTo ridicule, to make fun of (someone).

    They was saying the jawn freaked out and called the cops cause all her sorority sistahs started ragging on her and calling her a stank ho for fucking half the basketball team.

    2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 204
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    Spencer knew his second homer—a two-run drive in the Yankee’s five-run eighth—was gone well before it landed in the second deck in left field.[…] “They were ragging on me because the first one was close,” Spencer said.

    1998, Rafael Hermoso, “Spencer leads subs’ assault”, in New York Daily News, editor, Yankees ’98: Best Ever, →ISBN, page 93

    From back at the mill came the sounds of men laughing and joking about how dumb Joe Reese had been. ¶ Their humor disgusted him. Reese had been careless, and it had cost him his life. There wasn’t any call for them to rag on him now.

    2013, Jake Logan, Slocum and the Yellowstone Scoundrel

Origin

Compare rag (“to tease, torment”).

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APA

rag on. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rag%20on

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“rag on.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rag%20on. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rag on,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rag%20on.

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