fag
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The ICC cannot allow the championship to continue as if designed on the back of a fag packet.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2025
But Labour said the "reannouncement" was just a "back of a fag packet plan".
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2024
In fact, I’m in the BFI office in central London at the fag end of 2019.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 11, 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
We’d heard that the father was a bricklayer’s mate, and I suppose we were expecting some cheeky little chap with a fag stuck on his lower lip.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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
Barker is an enormously strong fellow, and that makes the younger chaps, whom he fags, look up to him as a great hero.
From Eric, or Little by Little by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
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
Every member was fagged by Saturday afternoon when Democratic assistant Chief-of-Staff Walsh of Montana arose to beg the Young Turks to have mercy on their older colleagues and not work them into their graves.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Now get some sleep, Matthias. I’m fagged out after that snack. My old honorable war wound is beginning to play me up. I must have a bit of a snooze.”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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
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
Then too, fagging at Eton created a great many social distinctions that are a British specialty.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tom Brown, as readers will remember, was in deep trouble at Rugby about the fagging system in vogue during his "school-days."
From Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various
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