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rag head
noun- an Arab person, or a native of any race that wears a cloth-covering on the head; by extension a native of Muslim countries US, 1921
Offensive. - — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 814, 1962: “Penitentiary and underworld glossary”
- He looked at the rearview mirror thinking, You want to drive, raghead? — Elmore Leonard, Pronto, p. 268, 1993
- “You mean this rag-head understands English?” “Most Pakistanis do, Bill.” — Howard Marks, Mr Nice, p. 262, 1997
- “That’s how you treat a handicap? Then I quit, raghead.” — Carl Hiaasen, Lucky You, p. 105, 1997
- Limbaugh was reacting to a wire story about Sen. Conrad Burns’ most recent faux pas, in which the Republican senator described Arabs as “ragheads” during a speech to the Montana Equipment Dealers Association. — Great Falls (Montana) Tribune, p. A6, 15 March 1999
- In a series of racist statements that began when the World Trade Center collapsed, Roque announced his murderous plans and told a co-worker that he had been treated rudely at a gasoline station on University Drive by “a towel head or a rag head.” — The Arizona Republic, p. 1A, 3 September 2003
- in circus and carnival usage, a gypsy US
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 215, 1981
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