ragtag

About 0.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Unkempt, shabby, or in a state of disrepair.

   He liked to wear an old ragtag coat that was so threadbare that he'd get sunburned through it.

2. adjective Very diverse; having irregular and dissimilar components.

   The guerrillas were a ragtag band of local thugs, former soldiers, displaced farmers, and political idealists.

3. noun A shabby, unkempt person.

Similar words

ragtag and bobtail riffraff rabble shabby unkempt raggle-taggle raggedy raggety scraggly grungy

Often followed by

army group band and bunch collection force of crew assortment