Thesaurus: fag

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1. n. A knot or coarse part in cloth.
2. v. i. To become weary; to tire.
3. v. i. To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.
4. v. i. To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools.
5. v. t. To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.
6. v. t. Anything that fatigues.
7. n. offensive term for a homosexual man
8. n. finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
9. v. act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools
10. v. work hard
11. v. exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
12. A knot or coarse part in cloth. [Obs.] 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. Coleridge. 3. To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools. To fag out, to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas. 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. Brain fag. (Med.) See Cerebropathy.