rag week

Definition

An annual event in many universities where students engage in unusual activities to raise money for charity.

Etymology

From rag (“university students society run for charitable fundraising”) + week, possibly from the verb rag (“tease; torment; banter”).

Example Sentences

• "This week has been the University College Rag Week. The students are given more or less a free hand all the week. They organize a series of revels culminating in a grand procession and collection this afternoon."
• "The only acting that looks like anything but rag week at a bad university is by Billy Hartman as a private detective."
• "Worse than that, too, during Rag Week when the drink flowed quickly and the privy seemes too far to stagger."