Edited by "The Old Fag" ... ? Well, I'm having a hard time finding a cigarette reference there, so...
By The Australian Panther
This one would confuse anybody who is not British and never went to a British 'Public' school.
fag 1
n. Chiefly British
1.
a. A student at a boarding school who is required to perform menial tasks for a student in a higher grade.
b. A drudge.
2. Fatiguing or tedious work; drudgery.
v. fagged, fag·ging, fags
v.tr. Informal
To exhaust; weary: Four hours on the tennis court fagged me out.
v.intr. Chiefly British
1. To work to exhaustion; toil.
2. To function as the servant of another student in a boarding school.
[From fag, to droop (obsolete), perhaps from Middle English fagge; see fag end.]
You'll find the word used this way in many of the older British boys papers.
Like the Billy Bunters.
Cheers!
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