tag-rag

From tag +‎ rag. See tag (“an end”).

tag-rag pl (plural only)

1. (obsolete) The lowest class of people; the rabble or commoners.
   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, I am no true man.

• rag, tag and bobtail, ragtag and bobtail, tag, rag and bobtail, tag-rag and bobtail

• “tag-rag”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• rag-tag, ragtag