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fag end

fag end is the alternative form 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.

Forms of fag end

pluralfag ends

Questions about fag end

What is fag end the alternative form of?
Fag end is the alternative form of fag-end.

Words near fag end in the dictionary

  1. fag boy
  2. fag boys
  3. fag break
  4. fag breaks
  5. fag cash
  6. fag end
  7. fag ends
  8. fag hag
  9. fag hags
  10. fag lighter
  11. fag lighters

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