fag
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But Labour said the "reannouncement" was just a "back of a fag packet plan".
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2024
Shadow justice secretary David Lammy said the plan lacked detail and was "written on the back of a fag packet" to "assuage" anti-racism protests.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2020
In archival video from that day, a protester clambers to the top of the gates and sits there nonchalantly smoking a fag, while police in short-sleeved shirts look on in horror.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2020
“We had lesbians, fag hags, African-Americans. Most of the drag queens were Spanish. It was a very mixed,” said a man who goes only by the name Tree.
From Reuters ● Jun. 17, 2019
And they laugh and drink their tea and smoke their Woodbines and tell one another the fag is the only comfort they have.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
Like a smoker finishing her very last pack of fags, May has appeared in recent months to be perpetually intending to quit as Prime Minister, without ever quite managing to do it.
From The New Yorker ● May 24, 2019
He - Burton - would walk around with his fags in his hand and I'd say cassocks have pockets you know.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2012
They also refer to more bizarre matters, including “bent bananas”, ‘British jam’ and how “Farage he likes his fags and beer”.
From Newsweek
The young servants are called fags, their service fagging, because in the 1660s "to fag" meant to toil.
From Time Magazine Archive
You can find merchants dealing in broken bottles, merchants in discarded "fags," merchants in the manure from the streets, merchants in rags and bones, egg shells and cabbage stalks.
From The Kangaroo Marines by R. W. Campbell
Twain was fagged out after the night train and chitchat, and his thigh was hurting.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2016
He is ordered to take a brief rest so that he will not be too fagged for next week's meeting.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Kennedy's husband, David, came down from London, "fagged and wretched."
From Time Magazine Archive
It lasted from 8:30 that evening until 2:30 a.m., with a fagged and humorless Molotov patiently enduring the humor of the other two.
From Time Magazine Archive
A mother with a pram will say to other mothers, God above, missus, you must be fagged out carrying that child.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
The inquiry was told that Mr Hahn had opposed corporal punishment and the school did not feature other practices common to boarding schools such as "fagging."
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2021
It was she who fanned to new endeavor the fagging spirits of her husband, in those moments of discouragement which are apt to come to all engaged in intense scientific research.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 28, 2011
During his ten years as headmaster McCrum nudged ten of Eton's 25 independent houses into giving up fagging voluntarily.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thoughtful English parents last fortnight had their attention directed to an incident of much more gravity, a far sterner condemnation of fagging.
From Time Magazine Archive
No sooner were the tents pitched than the crowd assembled, and it was another noisy and fagging day.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
