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# fag

«fag» in Mova's school dictionary: **a cigarette** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a fag, fags)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (UK, slang) A fag is a cigarette. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fag/#m1)

2) (UK, informal) A fag is a boring or tiring job: what a fag! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fag/#m2)

3) (UK, old) At some old boarding schools, a fag was a younger boy who did jobs for an older one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fag/#m3)

4) (offensive) A hateful slur against gay men, mostly American; never use it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fag/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Heard in UK rough talk (going out for a fag), health lessons about smoking, old school stories; the slur appears in bullying, which schools stop.

### examples

- (UK slang) Uncle Mick went outside for a fag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fag/#x1)
- There were fag ends all over the pavement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fag/#x2)
- (UK) Washing up after a party is such a fag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fag/#x3)
- Smoking fags damages your lungs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fag/#x4)
- In the old story, the young boy had to be a fag for the prefects. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fag/#x5)
- Calling someone a hateful name is bullying; tell a teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fag/#x6)

### note

The cigarette sense is British slang; in the USA the word is mainly the slur, so avoid it. «Fag end» = cigarette end, or the last bit of something. Related: fagged out (UK, very tired).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fag» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fag/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.