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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fag \Fag\, v. t.
     1. To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged
        out.
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     2. Anything that fatigues. [R.]


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              It is such a fag, I came back tired to death. --Miss
                                                    Austen.
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     {Brain fag}. (Med.) See {Cerebropathy}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fag \Fag\ (f[a^]g) n.
     1. A knot or coarse part in cloth; a flaw. [Obs.]
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     2. A cigarette. [slang]
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     3. A fag end in a cloth.
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     4. A drudge.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  fag \fag\ (f[a^]g), n.
     A male homosexual; -- always used disparagingly and
     considered offensive. Shortened form of {faggot}. [Slang,
     disparaging.]
  
     Syn: faggot.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fag \Fag\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fagged} (f[a^]gd); p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Fagging} (f[a^]g"g[i^]ng).] [Cf. LG. fakk wearied, weary,
     vaak slumber, drowsiness, OFries. fai, equiv. to f[=a]ch
     devoted to death, OS. f[=e]gi, OHG. feigi, G. feig, feige,
     cowardly, Icel. feigr fated to die, AS. f[=ae]ge, Scot. faik,
     to fail, stop, lower the price; or perh. the same word as E.
     flag to droop.]
     1. To become weary; to tire.
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              Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began
              to fag.                               --G.
                                                    Mackenzie.
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     2. To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.
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              Read, fag, and subdue this chapter.   --Coleridge.
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     3. To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery,
        for another, as in some English schools.
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     {To fag out}, to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a
        rope, or the edge of canvas.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fag
       n 1: offensive terms for an openly homosexual man [syn: {fagot},
            {faggot}, {fairy}, {nance}, {pansy}, {queen}, {queer}, {poof},
             {poove}, {pouf}]
       2: finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking [syn: {cigarette},
           {cigaret}, {coffin nail}, {butt}]
       v 1: act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools
       2: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework";
          "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: {labor}, {labour},
           {toil}, {travail}, {grind}, {drudge}, {dig}, {moil}]
       3: exhaust or tire through overuse or great strain or stress;
          "We wore ourselves out on this hike" [syn: {tire}, {wear
          upon}, {tire out}, {wear}, {weary}, {jade}, {wear out}, {outwear},
           {wear down}, {fag out}, {fatigue}] [ant: {refresh}]
       [also: {fagging}, {fagged}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  136 Moby Thesaurus words for "fag":
     auntie, beast of burden, beat, bi-guy, bisexual, bugger, bull dyke,
     burden, burn out, busy, butch, butt, carton of cigarettes,
     catamite, chicken, cig, cigarette, cigarette butt, cigarette case,
     debilitate, deck of cigarettes, dig, dirty work, do in, do up,
     donkeywork, drive, drudge, drudgery, dyke, employment, enervate,
     exhaust, fag out, faggot, fairy, fatigue, femme, flag, flit,
     frazzle, fricatrice, fruit, galley slave, greasy grind, grind,
     grub, gunsel, hack, hammer, hammer away, handiwork, handwork,
     harass, homo, homophile, homosexual, homosexualist, industry,
     invert, jade, keep busy, knock out, knock up, labor, lesbian, lick,
     lick of work, manual labor, moil, nance, oppress, outwear,
     overdrive, overfatigue, overstrain, overtask, overtax, overtire,
     overweary, overwork, pansy, pathic, peg, peg away, plod, plodder,
     plug, plug along, plug away, poop, poop out, pound away, prostrate,
     punk, queen, queer, rat race, sapphist, scut work, slave, slavery,
     slog, slogger, smoke, snipe, spadework, stroke, stroke of work,
     stub, sweat, swot, task, tax, tire, tire out, tire to death,
     tiresome work, toil, travail, treadmill, tribade, tucker, use up,
     wade through, weaken, wear, wear down, wear on, wear out, weary,
     wilt, wind, work, work away, workhorse
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  FAG
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