Meaning

(US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric..

Definitions by Sense

1. (US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
2. (UK, Ireland, colloquial) A cigarette.
3. (UK, Ireland, obsolete, colloquial) The worst part or end of a thing.
4. (colloquial, now rare) A chore: an arduous and tiresome task.
5. (education, historical, colloquial) A younger student acting as a servant for senior students (potentially in a sexual or abusive way).
6. (transitive, colloquial, used mainly in passive form, now rare) To make exhausted, tired out.
7. (intransitive, colloquial, now rare) To droop; to tire.
8. (intransitive, UK, Ireland, education, historical, colloquial) (of a younger student) To act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools. To be the servant in fagging.

Example Sentences

He′d Phase Out Fag Industry Los Angeles (UPI) - A UCLA professor has called for the phasing out of the cigarette industry by converting tobacco acres to other crops.

Oh, rent a flat above a shop / And cut your hair and get a job / And smoke some fags and play some pool / Pretend you never went to school

All of them, like my mother, were heavy smokers, and after warming themselves by the fire, they would sit on the sofa and smoke, lobbing their wet fag ends into the fire.

So I started off by asking the shearers if they minded if I took a belly off while they were having a fag. Then after a while they were asking me. They′d say, ‘Do yer wanta take over fer a bit while I have a fag?’ And then I got better and I′d finish the sheep and they′d say ‘Christ, I haven′t finished me bloody fag yet, yer may as well shear anotherie.’

Fag, s. the worst part or end of anything.

We are sadly off in the country; not but what we have very good shops in Salisbury, but it is so far to go—eight miles is a long way; Mr. Allen says it is nine, measured nine; but I am sure it cannot be more than eight; and it is such a fag—I come back tired to death.

Keeping up appearances is a bit of a fag, I grant, but if a girl respects herself it’s up to her not to let herself get slack.

I had the character at ſchool of being the very beſt fag that ever came into it.

Word Forms

• fags
• fagging
• fagged

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