Fag

Quick meaning: Fag is a noun meaning (US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (UK, Ireland, colloquial) A cigarette.
2. (UK, Ireland, obsolete, colloquial) The worst part or end of a thing.
3. (colloquial, now rare) A chore: an arduous and tiresome task.
4. (education, historical, colloquial) A younger student acting as a servant for senior students (potentially in a sexual or abusive way).
5. (transitive, colloquial, used mainly in passive form, now rare) To make exhausted, tired out.
6. (intransitive, colloquial, now rare) To droop; to tire.
7. (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

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

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

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.

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

Word Forms

• fags
• fagging
• fagged

Synonyms for fag

Depending on context, synonyms include bine, blem, bogie, boagie, butt, cancerette.

Antonyms for fag

Common opposites include refresh, freshen, refreshen.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pouf, wear, pikey, faggot, closet, grind.

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