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

present participle of fag

plural of fagging

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

(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.

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

plural of fag

simple past tense and past participle of fag

(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.