(chiefly, US, Canada, transitive) To ridicule, to make fun of (someone).
From back at the mill came the sounds of men laughing and joking about how dumb Joe Reese had been. ¶ Their humor disgusted him. Reese had been careless, and it had cost him his life. There wasn’t any call for them to rag on him now.
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