rag on

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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 , 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:
      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.

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