tag, rag, and bobtail

noun

ˌtag-ˌrag-ən-ˈbäb-ˌtāl How to pronounce tag, rag, and bobtail (audio)
variants or tagrag and bobtail
Definition of tag, rag, and bobtailnext
as in ragtag and bobtail
people looked down upon as ignorant and of the lowest class in an apparent effort to keep out the city's tag, rag, and bobtail, the restaurant charges royally high prices for mediocre food

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  1. populace
  2. public
  3. trash
  4. people
  5. proletariat
  6. rabble
  7. rout
  8. scum
Noun
  • Bozzo leveled criticisms at the current city government, arguing for more collaboration between officials and the populace.
    Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 28 Nov. 2024
  • The public can’t handle the truth Recent political shows have settled into a mode that suggests the proletariat is, well, dumb — think of how The Regime depicts the populace of its unnamed country cheering for Kate Winslet’s mustard-fetishizing autocrat.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of populace
Noun
  • Investigators hail crucial role of public in finding person of interest Tisch, the police commissioner, said the tip from the McDonald's employee in Thompson's slaying is the third recent case in which the public has helped police.
    Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
  • More than fifteen million people—sixty-five per cent of the French viewing public—watched as Macron appeared onscreen, perched on a balcony with the plane trees of the palace gardens behind him, filtering the day’s last light.
    Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of public
Noun
  • The split resulted in viral photos of Affleck's brother, Casey, tossing a giant cardboard cutout of de Armas in the trash.
    Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Krupin spent about $1,000 on initial supplies — a children’s gardening rake, trash bags, gloves, a dust pan and disinfectant — as well as an LLC, business insurance, a website domain, a cargo trailer and hitch for her car.
    Morgan Smith, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of trash
Noun
  • Previous reporting suggested most of the infections were in people over the age of 15.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Sheriff Robert Luna of Los Angeles County said that about 18,000 people were in the mandatory or voluntary evacuation zones.
    Corina Knoll, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of people
Noun
  • Inspired by Karl Marx, the Bolsheviks dreamed of a world communist revolution and held special expectations for Germany, Marx’s homeland, and for its proletariat.
    Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 19 June 2023
  • The first scenario does much more to reduce poverty, demonstrating the importance of permanently expanding access to unemployment insurance to workers with nontraditional jobs—part-timers, freelancers, and other members of the gig economy’s swelling proletariat.
    Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
Definition of proletariat
Noun
  • Advertisement From start to finish, pure madness, amid a rabble that never calmed, never quieted, never quit.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2024
  • All this anti-Soviet scum, all this rabble revolves around Sakharov.
    Gal Beckerman, Foreign Affairs, 10 May 2012
Definition of rabble
Noun
  • Maryland’s defense allowed Purdue’s stars to get unleashed In Wednesday’s 83-59 rout of Ohio State, the Terps locked down on the Buckeyes standout junior point guard Bruce Thorton, who finished with a quiet nine points, four rebounds and two assists.
    Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 8 Dec. 2024
  • The score was tied at 10 early in the second quarter before Arizona State scored the game’s next 35 points to turn it into a rout.
    The Athletic College Football, The Athletic, 8 Dec. 2024
Definition of rout
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  • Clean Shower After Every Use After each shower, quickly wipe down the tile or glass to keep surfaces free of water spots, mineral deposits, and soap scum, all but eliminating the need for deep cleans.
    Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Dec. 2024
  • This electric spin scrubber does the muscle work for you, effortlessly wiping away soap scum, hard water stains, and mildew from all sorts of surfaces.
    Clara McMahon, People.com, 28 Nov. 2024
Definition of scum
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