fag
/fæɡ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.32 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "‘What about a fag, boys?’"
- "He′d Phase Out Fag Industry Los Angeles (UPI) - A UCLA professor has called for the phasing out of the cigarette industry by converting tobacco acres to other crops."
- "Oh, rent a flat above a shop / And cut your hair and get a job / And smoke some fags and play some pool / Pretend you never went to school"
- "He paused, puffed on his cigarette, and struggled with a cough. Bejesus, excuse the language, but the fags'll get me in the end."
- "All of them, like my mother, were heavy smokers, and after warming themselves by the fire, they would sit on the sofa and smoke, lobbing their wet fag ends into the fire."
- "So I started off by asking the shearers if they minded if I took a belly off while they were having a fag. Then after a while they were asking me. They′d say, ‘Do yer wanta take over fer a bit while I have a fag?’ And then I got better and I′d finish the sheep and they′d say ‘Christ, I haven′t finished me bloody fag yet, yer may as well shear anotherie.’"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: fagge
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /fæɡ/
- British English: /fæɡ/
Usage
- American usage
- Australian usage
- British usage
- Colloquial
- Obsolete
- Archaic
- Transitive verb
- Intransitive verb