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

Common uses

* Rag, a piece of old

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* Rags, tattered

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* Wash rag, a small cloth used for bathing * Rag (newspaper), a publication engaging in tabloid journalism * Rag paper, or cotton 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 Ragtime, also spelled rag-time or rag time, is a musical style that had its peak from the 1890s to 1910s. Its cardinal trait is its Syncopation, syncopated or "ragged" rhythm. Ragtime was popularized during the early 20th century by composers ...

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 and organisations

* RAG AG, a German coal mining corporation * RAG Austria AG, a gas storage operator in Austria * RAGS International, later Messiah Foundation International, a spiritual organisation

People

* Rags (nickname), a list of people known as Rags *

Ēriks Rags Ēriks Rags (born 1 June 1975) is a Latvian javelin thrower. His personal best throw is 86.47 metres, achieved in July 2001 in London. He has competed at three Summer Olympics between Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's javelin thr ...

(born 1975), Latvian javelin thrower

Places

* Rag Island, in the Seal Islands group, Australia * Rag River, in County Cavan, Ireland

Other uses

Royal Galician Academy The Royal Galician Academy (, RAG) is an institution dedicated to the study of Galician culture and especially the Galician language; it promulgates norms of grammar, spelling, and vocabulary and works to promote the language. The Academy is bas ...

(Galician: ''Real Academia Galega''), A Coruña, Galicia, Spain * Rags Brook, a tributary of the River Lea in England * ''

The Rag ''The Rag'' was an underground press, underground newspaper published in Austin, Texas from 1966–1977. The weekly paper covered political and cultural topics that the conventional press ignored, such as the growing antiwar movement, the sexu ...

'', an underground paper in Austin, Texas, 1966–1977 *

Rag (student society) Rags are student-run charitable fundraising organisations that are widespread in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Some are run as student societies whilst others sit with campaigns within their student unions. Most universities in the UK and Irela ...

, 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 * ''Ragioniere'' or ''rag.'', an Italian honorific for a school graduate in business economics *

Retrieval-augmented generation Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a technique that enables large language model, large language models (LLMs) to retrieve and incorporate new information. With RAG, LLMs do not respond to user queries until they refer to a specified set of d ...

, generative artificial intelligence with the addition of information retrieval capabilities