Heroic jargon and slang.

Explanatory dictionary of D. N. Ushakov: Rag, rags, f. 1. A piece of fabric. Wipe the dust with a rag. Wipe the floor with a wet rag. A doll made of rags. 2. only pl. Women's clothes (colloquial, derogatory). She only thinks about clothes. She spent a hundred rubles on clothes. 3. fig. A spineless, weak-willed, insignificant person (colloquial, contemptuous). He mistook a weakling for an important person! Gogol. Pavel Vasilyevich was a weakling at heart and didn't know how to refuse. Chekhov.