ragging

[rag-ing]

noun

Metalworking.

1. (in the rolls of a rolling mill) corrugations affording a grip on a piece being roughed.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ragging¹

rag ³ + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

The Gallagher brothers have made a bit of a sport out of ragging on each other in the press.

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Mulaney turned his trip to rehab into material, ragging on himself by recounting stories from the height of his addiction, such as an intervention staged by A-lister friends of his.

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“I was kind of ragging him a little bit,” Judge said.

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We’ve all spent so much time ragging on Twitter and not really liking Twitter.

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“With me ragging on him for the entire book — a lot of that stuff was stuff I was feeling, and the book was a way to get it out,” Leggero muses.

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Related Words

• admonition 
• censure 
• rebuke