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verb (used with object)
1.
to tire or weary by labor; exhaust (often followed 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.
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Fags
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| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
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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.
EXPANDBritish 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.
COLLAPSEa drudge.
Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English fagge broken thread in cloth, loose end (of obscure origin); sense development apparently: drooping end > to droop, tire > to make weary > drudgery, drudge (compare relationship of flag1 to flag3); (def. 6) a shortening of fag end (a butt, hence a cigarette)
1425–75; late Middle English fagge broken thread in cloth, loose end (of obscure origin); sense development apparently: drooping end > to droop, tire > to make weary > drudgery, drudge (compare relationship of flag1 to flag3); (def. 6) a shortening of fag end (a butt, hence a cigarette)
Related forms
un·fagged, adjective
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Origin:
1920–25, Americanism; by shortening
1920–25, Americanism; by shortening
Related forms
fag·gish, adjective
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Word Origin & History
fag
British slang for "cigarette" (originally, especially, the butt of a smoked cigarette), 1888, probably from fag-end "extreme end, loose piece" (1613), from fag "loose piece" (1486), perhaps related to fag (v.).
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Slang Dictionary
fag definition[fæg]
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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