[The Australian Panther]

This one would confuse anybody who is not British and never went to a British 'Public' school.
fag 1 (făg)
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;lll find the word used this way in many of the older British boys papers.
Like the Billy Bunters.
Cheers!

Link to the book: The Captain 043

[positronic1]

This one would confuse anybody who is not British and never went to a British 'Public' school.<br />
fag 1 (făg)<br />
n. Chiefly British<br />
1.<br />
a. A student at a boarding school who is required to perform menial tasks for a student in a higher grade.<br />
b. A drudge.<br />
2. Fatiguing or tedious work; drudgery.<br />
v. fagged, fag