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rag week

noun

Etymology

From rag (“university students society run for charitable fundraising”) + week, possibly from the verb rag (“tease; torment; banter”).

  1. derived from *weyg-✻
  2. inherited from *wikǭ✻ — “sequence; week”
  3. inherited from *wikā✻
  4. inherited from wiċe
  5. inherited from wyke
  6. compounded as rag week — “rag + week”

Definitions

  1. An annual event in many universities where students engage in unusual activities to raise…

    An annual event in many universities where students engage in unusual activities to raise money for charity.

    • This week has been the University College Rag Week. The students are given more or less a free hand all the week. They organize a series of revels culminating in a grand procession and collection this afternoon.
    • The only acting that looks like anything but rag week at a bad university is by Billy Hartman as a private detective.
    • Worse than that, too, during Rag Week when the drink flowed quickly and the privy seemes too far to stagger.

  2. The days of the month when a woman has her period.

    • I wouldn't bother trying to get off with her – it's rag week.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA