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Entry 10 senses · 4 variants Webster, 1913

Fag

/(făg)/ · IPA /ˈfæɡ/
01 n. A knot or coarse part in cloth; a flaw.
  1. 1.
    A knot or coarse part in cloth; a flaw.[Obs.]
  2. 2.
    A cigarette.[slang]
  3. 3.
    A fag end in a cloth.
  4. 4.
    A drudge.
02 n. A male homosexual; -- always used disparagingly and considered offensive. Shortened form of faggot.
  1. 1.
    A male homosexual; -- always used disparagingly and considered offensive. Shortened form of faggot.[Slang, disparaging.] See: faggot
Syn. faggot.
03 v. i. To become weary; to tire.
imp. & p. p. Fagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Fagging
  1. 1.
    To become weary; to tire.
    “Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began to fag.” — G. Mackenzie.
  2. 2.
    To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.
    “Read, fag, and subdue this chapter.” — Coleridge.
  3. 3.
    To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools.
Phrases & compounds
To fag out — to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.
04 v. t. To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.
  1. 1.
    To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.
  2. 2.
    Anything that fatigues.[R.]
    “It is such a fag, I came back tired to death.” — Miss Austen.
Phrases & compounds
Brain fag — See Cerebropathy.