fag¹ (făg)
n.

1. 1. A student at a British public school who is required to perform menial tasks for a student in a higher class.
   2. A drudge.
2. Chiefly British. Fatiguing or tedious work; drudgery.

v., fagged, fag·ging, fags.

v.intr.

1. To work to exhaustion; toil.
2. To function as the servant of another student in a British public school.

v.tr.
To exhaust; weary: Four hours on the tennis court fagged me out.

[From fag, to droop (obsolete), perhaps from Middle English fagge. See fag end.]

fag² (făg)
n. Slang
A cigarette.

[Short for FAG END.]

fag³ (făg)
n. Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for a homosexual man.

[Short for FAGGOT².]

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