Rag: To haze

We tend to think of English as being either British, or American. But the reality is that English is widely used in many countries in the world and has quite different vocabularies in different cultures. If one is going to remain current in English one must realize that these different vocabularies will have as much chance if not more of surviving than the language we use here in the states. For this reason I try to read widely the English used throughout the world.

In this, article: 7 Sanawar boys sent home for ragging found in the Times of India to rag is used in the sense of to haze, meaning physical violence or bullying in a school setting.