One definition is: A ragtag army is a disreputable or disorganized group.
I can whip this ragtag crew into shape pretty quickly. The ragtag band impressed all who were present.
There is no anagram. The letters can spell "this gag arm" or "ragtag shim."
I assume the phrase refers to the Colonial army. As the war progressed the army became better trained and somewhat better equipped, but perhaps "ragtag" still applied. They were certainly a band of rebels.
His novel is a ragtag, piecemeal work.
We must unite our ragtag forces if we are to succeed against the imperialist army!
This was because at that time, the colonies had no professional full-time army to do battle; it was made up of civilian volunteers, most farmers and uneducated.
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disorderly, disordered, unorganized, jumbled, muddled, untidy, messy, chaotic, topsy-turvy, haphazard, ragtag, shambolic, unmethodical, unsystematic, undisciplined, inefficient, careless, slapdash, sloppy, hit-and-miss.
Make Cinderella a ninja who enlists rats and fairies in a ragtag army to help her save the Prince, and the kingdom, from her evil telepathic stepmother. A definite departure from the original tale, but interesting nonetheless!
It has 240 pages. It is by Karl wolf-Mortgenlander. It is about a young swallow named Ragtag.There is another book with this title. It is by Joan Shott. It has 328 pages. It is about a girl named Edie that leaves her small town for a rich lifestyle.
They couldn't understand how they could possibly lose. The colonists didn't have the military training that the British had. They were not well armed and had no uniforms. How could such a ragtag bunch of men defeat one of the most powerful armies in the world?
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 2 words with the pattern ---TAG. That is, six letter words with 4th letter T and 5th letter A and 6th letter G. In alphabetical order, they are: ragtag sontag