Meaning & use
Ragging
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Teasing or mocking someone in a good-natured or, in some contexts, harsh and humiliating way.
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His friends kept ragging him about his terrible singing at karaoke.
Senior students were suspended for ragging new arrivals at the dormitory.
A note on using this word
In South Asian English, 'ragging' specifically refers to the harassment of new students by seniors, a practice banned in many Indian universities.
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