rag it meaning

[British slang]
Verb. Push to the limits. Usually applied to driving a vehicle. E.g."He always rags it when he's in a hire car.”

Examples

  1. "But I'm not going to rag it out there at 80 or 90 percent when I can be 100 percent in my last two starts and then 100 percent in the playoffs, obviously ."
  2. He was virulently Gringoire ",-George Orwell called it " the most disgusting rag it is possible to imagine "-indicating his hatred of British forces and criticism of the Free French, although he also censured Nazism.
  3. Kern actually shows a song evolving out of the past : Magnolia sings a " colored " ballad and is urged to make it up-tempo, " rag it " and bring it up to date, in much the way that Tin Pan Alley songwriters were influenced by black minstrels.

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