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Rag week

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    An annual event in many universities where students engage in unusual activities to raise money for charity. British, Ireland

    "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."

  2. 2
    The days of the month when a woman has her period. British, slang, vulgar

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

  3. 3
    a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

From rag (“piece of old cloth”) + week. From the former use, by women, of rags to protect their clothing from menstrual blood.

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