Fag /(făg)/

Fag

n.
  1. A knot or coarse part in cloth; a flaw. [Obs.]
  2. A cigarette. [slang]
  3. A fag end in a cloth.
  4. A drudge.

fag

n.
  1. A male homosexual; -- always used disparagingly and considered offensive. Shortened form of faggot. [Slang, disparaging.]

Fag

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Fagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Fagging

  1. To become weary; to tire.
    Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began to fag.
    — G. Mackenzie.
  2. To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.
    Read, fag, and subdue this chapter.
  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.

Fag

v. t.
  1. To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.
  2. Anything that fatigues. [R.]
    It is such a fag, I came back tired to death.
    — Miss Austen.

Phrases & Compounds
Brain fag
See Cerebropathy.