(US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric. / (UK, Ireland, Australia, colloquial, dated in US and Canada) A cigarette.

(Britain, dated, colloquial) A chore: an arduous and tiresome task. / (Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) A younger student acting as a servant for senior students.

(transitive, colloquial, used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out. / (intransitive, colloquial) To droop; to tire.

(chiefly US, Canada, vulgar, usually offensive, sometimes endearing) A homosexual man, especially (usually derogatory) an especially effeminate or unusual one.

simple past tense and past participle of fag

present participle of fag

(UK, historical, education) The system in boarding schools whereby younger students acted as servants for older students.

(Internet slang) A suffix combined with an adjective or noun to form a word for a specific type of person, often with a derogatory or irreverent connotation.

plural of fagging

plural of fag