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Fag

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Noun

1. fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer

offensive term for an openly homosexual man

2. butt, cigaret, cigarette, coffin nail, fag

finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking

Verb

3. fag

act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools

4. dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail

work hard

Example Sentences:
'She was digging away at her math homework'
'Lexicographers drudge all day long'

5. fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary

exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

Example Sentences:
'We wore ourselves out on this hike'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Fag

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noun
1. informal
a boring or wearisome task
it's a fag having to walk all that way
2. British
(esp formerly) a young public school boy who performs menial chores for an older boy or prefect
verbWord forms: fags, fagging or fagged
3. (when tr, often foll by out) informal
to become or cause to become exhausted by hard toil or work
4. (usually intr) British
to do or cause to do menial chores in a public school
Brown fags for Lee
noun
1. British a slang word for cigarette
2. 
a fag end, as of cloth
noun
offensive, slang, mainly US and Canadian short for faggot2

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Fag

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verb intransitiveWord forms: fagged or ˈfagging
1. 
to work hard and become very tired
2.  British, Informal
to serve as a fag or servant
verb transitive
3. 
to make tired by hard work
4.  British, Informal
to employ (a boy) as a fag or servant
noun
5.  British, Informal
a. 
hard, tiring work; drudgery
b. 
fatigue; weariness
c. 
a boy in an English public school who acts as a servant for another boy in a higher form, or class
d. 
a menial worker; drudge
6.  US, Slang
a male homosexual
a term of contempt and hostility
noun
Chiefly British, Informal
a cigarette

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Fag

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n.
Chiefly British
1.
a. A student at a boarding school who is required to perform menial tasks for a student in a higher grade.
b. A drudge.
2. Fatiguing or tedious work; drudgery.
v. fagged, fag·ging, fags
v.tr.
Informal
To exhaust; weary: Four hours on the tennis court fagged me out.
v.intr.
Chiefly British
1. To work to exhaustion; toil.
2. To function as the servant of another student in a boarding school.
n.
Slang
A cigarette.
n.
Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for a gay man.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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