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1
consisting of many things of different sorts
- the team was a ragtag bunch who had only one thing in common: a lack of skill
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2
wearing torn or worn out clothes
- a ragtag and weary regiment arrived back at headquarters with the latest news from the front
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- down-at-the-heels
- (or down-at-heel also down-at-the-heel or down-at-heels)
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“Ragtag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ragtag. Accessed 3 Dec. 2021.
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The first known use of ragtag was in 1865
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