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• rag-head — n an Arab. A pejorative term inspired by the headdress worn particularly by Gulf Arab males. The term is occasionally applied to turban wearers too. An alternative is towel head …   Contemporary slang

• rag head — Noun. An arab, Sikh, or other race or religion that traditionally wears cloth headwear. Offens …   English slang and colloquialisms

• rag worm — ▪ annelid also called  clam worm (genus Nereis)   any of a group of mostly marine or shore worms of the class Polychaeta (phylum Annelida). A few species live in fresh water. Other common names include mussel worm, pileworm, and sandworm. Rag… …   Universalium

• head — Synonyms and related words: A per se, Adamite, Big Brother, LSD user, MD, Vernunft, WC, abbreviation, abbreviature, abrege, abridgment, abstract, ace, acidhead, acknowledgments, acmatic, addict, address, administer, administrate, administrator,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• rag bolt — /ˈræg boʊlt/ (say rag bohlt) noun a foundation bolt with a long, tapered, jagged head around which molten lead or concrete can be poured to provide an anchorage …  

• rag — Synonyms and related words: abuse, acid rock, act drop, afterglow, afterimage, andante tempo, apparel, array, asbestos, asbestos board, attire, avant garde jazz, backdrop, balance, ballroom music, banter, bark at, baste, batten, bawl out, beat,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• rag-top — n a convertible car. The Americanism has also occasionally been heard in Britain as an alternative for soft top or the ear lier drop head …   Contemporary slang

• hankie-head — n an Arab. The term, which probably post dates the more widespread synonyms rag head and towel head, was popular ised by the comic writer P. J. O Rourke in the 1980s …   Contemporary slang

• towel-head — n an Arab. A predictable pejorative term. Rag head is a more widespread synonym. ► Some towel head from Hizbullah marched up and down the street twice. (Republican Party Reptile, P. J. O Rourke, 1987) …   Contemporary slang

• velcro-head — n a Negro. A phrase from the 1980s, deriv ing from the supposed likeness between Velcro (a trademark name for a fabric fastening material) and a black person s hair. Like rag head and towel head as applied to Arabs, the term is invariably… …   Contemporary slang

• Do-rag — Durag redirects here. For the village in Poland, see Durąg. Rapper Slim Thug wearing a do rag. A do rag, also spelled doo rag, du rag, durag, is a piece of cloth used to cover the head. According to the Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam… …   Wikipedia