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fag-ends

fag-ends is the plural of fag-end.

Meaning of fag-end

Noun

fag-end (plural fag-ends)

  1. (literally) The unsmoked end of a cigarette or cigar.
  2. (India, broadly, figuratively) The last remnant.
    • And though the annals of the period do not shew us that there was less ale drawn, or less canary called for; men got dry with the heat of polemical discussion, and drunk with a text, not the fag end of a ballad, in their mouths; and people made a sort of morality of straight hair, long faces, and...1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 190
    Synonyms:
    tag end, tail end
  3. (broadly, figuratively) The frayed end of a length of cloth or rope.

Questions about fag-ends

What is fag-ends the plural of?
Fag-ends is the plural of fag-end.

Words near fag-ends in the dictionary

  1. fag-bashes
  2. fag-bashing
  3. fag-boy
  4. fag-boys
  5. fag-end
  6. fag-ends
  7. fag-lighter
  8. fag-lighters
  9. fagaceous
  10. Fagan
  11. Fagan inspection

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