tag-rag Meaning, Definition & Usage

Tag"-rag` noun & adjective
Etymology
See Tag an end, and Rag.
Definitions
  1. The lowest class of people; the rabble. Cf. Rag, tag, and bobtail, under Bobtail.
    If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, I am no true man. Shak.

Webster 1913