fag hag
fag hag noun: a woman who enjoys the company of gay men.
Noun
fag hag (plural fag hags)
- A woman who enjoys the company of gay men.
- Susan "Suki" Eagan, manager of the Boston bar Chaps, describes her own personal odyssey as "local debutante to fag hag to fag bar owner."1977 August 27, Steve Savage, Susan "Suki" Eagan, “Everything You Wanted to Know About Suki, But Were Too Distracted In Chaps to Ask Her”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 8, page 8
- Becoming a glam fag hag was not about money or privilege. Au contraire. Any working-class girl was eligible. All she had to do was get a job in a fag-rich environment, be it a hair salon or a department store.2012, Simon Doonan, Gay Men Don't Get Fat, Penguin, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- fruit fly
Synonyms of fag hag
Forms of fag hag
| plural | fag hags |
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Origin of fag hag
From fag + hag. First use appears c. 1965 in the publication The Guild Dictionary of Homosexual Terms.
Questions about fag hag
- What does fag hag mean?
- Fag hag means a woman who enjoys the company of gay men.
- What part of speech is fag hag?
- Fag hag is a noun.
- What is the plural of fag hag?
- The plural of fag hag is fag hags.
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