rag on

English

Etymology

Compare rag (“to tease, torment”).

Verb

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

1. (chiefly US, Canada, transitive) To ridicule, to make fun of (someone).
   • 1998, Rafael Hermoso, “Spencer leads subs’ assault”, in New York Daily News, editor, Yankees ’98: Best Ever, →ISBN, page 93:

     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.

   • 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 204:

     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.

   • 2013, Jake Logan, Slocum and the Yellowstone Scoundrel‎^[1]:

     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.

Anagrams

• Angor, Garon, Goran, Grano, Ongar, Rogan, Ronga, angor, argon, groan, nagor, orang, organ, rango