Meaning of rag week | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An annual event in many universities where students engage in unusual activities to raise money for charity.
   British, Ireland
2. The days of the month when a woman has her period.
   British, slang, vulgar

Examples

“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.”

“In truth the gags seldom rise⟳ above the level of an undergraduate Rag Week but speed⟳, quickchange wigs and sheer chutzpah from Russell Bentley, pretty blonde Marianne Levy, Joel Brookes and Teddy Lawrence give⟳ wicked twists to such as 'Richard and Judaism', a Who Wants to be a Millionaire? contestant whose phone-a-friend is his argumentative Jewish mother, a wondering 'Wandering Jew' and a savage Shylock rehearsal scene.”

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

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