fag

Pronunciation key ( fag )

fag

v.i..

[FAGGED (fagd), FAGGING], earlier form of flag v., fag•ger [basic sense, to "droop, decline, hang loosely"],

1. to work hard, to make very weary by hard work.
2. to serve as a fag. v.t.
3. to hire (a boy) as a fag. n.
4. to make a fag of, to act as a fag.
5. hard, tiring work, drudge, drudgery.
6. fatigue, weariness, tire, exhaust
7. a boy who does menial service.
8. a boy in an English public school, who acts as a servant for another boy in a higher form, or class.

[Slang] male homosexual.

[Slang], [fag end], a cigarette.

References

Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language (College Edition) ©1955

Funk and Wagnall's Standard Dictionary, Comprehensive International Edition, ©1976

Merriam-Webster Dictionary & Thesaurus, ©2004