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fag [ fag ]


noun  (plural fags)
Definition:
 
schoolboy's helper: at a private British school, a schoolboy who has to do menial jobs and run errands for an older schoolboy ( dated )



verb  (past and past participle fagged, present participle fag·ging, 3rd person present singular fags)
Definition:
 
1. transitive and intransitive verb U.S. exhaust through work: to exhaust somebody through drudgery or hard labor, or become exhausted in this way

2. intransitive verb U.K. act as schoolboy's helper: at a private British school, to do menial jobs and run errands for an older schoolboy ( dated )

[Mid-16th century. Origin ?]
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