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fag

1  [fag] verb, fagged, fag⋅ging, noun
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–verb (used with object)
1. to tire or weary by labor; exhaust (often fol. by out): The long climb fagged us out.
2. British. to require (a younger public-school pupil) to do menial chores.
3. Nautical. to fray or unlay the end of (a rope).
–verb (used without object)
4. Chiefly British. to work until wearied; work hard: to fag away at French.
5. British Informal. to do menial chores for an older public-school pupil.
–noun
6. Slang. a cigarette.
7. a fag end, as of cloth.
8. a rough or defective spot in a woven fabric; blemish; flaw.
9. Chiefly British. drudgery; toil.
10. British Informal. a younger pupil in a British public school required to perform certain menial tasks for, and submit to the hazing of, an older pupil.
11. a drudge.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME fagge broken thread in cloth, loose end (of obscure orig.); sense development appar.: drooping end > to droop, tire > to make weary > drudgery, drudge (cf. relationship of flag 1 to flag 3 ); (def. 6) a shortening of fag end (a butt, hence a cigarette)
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fag 1   (fāg)   
n.  
    1. A student at a British public school who is required to perform menial tasks for a student in a higher class.
    2. A drudge.
  2. Chiefly British Fatiguing or tedious work; drudgery.
v.   fagged, fag·ging, fags

v.   intr.
  1. To work to exhaustion; toil.
  2. To function as the servant of another student in a British public school.
v.   tr.
To exhaust; weary: Four hours on the tennis court fagged me out.

[From fag, to droop (obsolete), perhaps from Middle English fagge; see fag end.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Fagging

Fag"ging\, n. Laborious drudgery; esp., the acting as a drudge for another at an English school.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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