Noun

(en noun)

(US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.

(UK, Ireland, Australia, colloquial, dated in US and Canada) A cigarette.

* 1968 January 25, The Bulletin, Oregon ,

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.

* 2001 , (2001), 15,

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 web fag ends into the fire.

* 2011 , Bill Marsh, Great Australian Shearing Stories , unnumbered page,

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.’

(UK, obsolete, colloquial) The worst part or end of a thing.

* {{quote-book

, year=1788 , editor=William Perry , title=The Royal standard English dictionary? citation , passage=Fag , s. the worst part or end of anything.}}

Noun

(en noun)

(British, colloquial) A chore; an arduous and tiresome task.

* 1818 , '', 1992, ''Complete Works of Jane Austen , unnumbered page,

We are sadly off in the country; not but what we have very good shops in Salisbury, but it is so far to go—eight miles is a long way; Mr. Allen says it is nine, measured nine; but I am sure it cannot be more than eight; and it is such a fag —I come back tired to death.

(British, archaic, colloquial) In many British boarding schools, a younger student acting as a servant for senior students.

* 1791 , Simon Sapling (pseudonym), Richard Cumberland, The Observer: A Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays , Volume 4, page 67,

I had the character at ?chool of being the very be?t fag that ever came into it.

Noun

(en noun)

(vulgar, offensive) A homosexual person.

* 1921 John Lind, The Female Impersonators ( Historical Documentation of American Slang v. 1, A-G, edited by Jonathan E. Lighter (New York: Random House, 1994) page 716.

Androgynes known as “fairies,” “fags,” or “brownies.”

* {{quote-journal

, year=1926 , author=American Neurological Association , coauthors=New York Neurological Association et al , journal=Journal of nervous and mental disease , volume=94 , page=467 citation , passage=In schizophrenics, however, the homosexual outlet is sooner or later ... ideas that strangers call them "cs," "fairy," "woman," "fag ," " fruit," etc.). ... }}

* 2006 , Lynn Mickelsen, Confusion Turned to Chaos

A couple of days later, Trisha tells Madelyn there is a rumor going around that she's a fag .

* {{quote-book

, year=2008 , author=Paul Ryan Brewer , title=Value war: public opinion and the politics of gay rights , page=60 citation , isbn=0742562115, 9780742562110 , passage=... what appeared to be overt appeals to anti-gay sentiment. When House Majority Whip Dick Armey referred to fellow Congressman Barney Frank as "Barney Fag " in 1995, he suffered a barage of negative publicity that prompted him to explain his choice of words as a slip of the tongue.}}

# (colloquial, disparaging) In particular, a conspicuously non-straight-acting homosexual male.

(US, vulgar, offensive) An annoying person.

Why did you do that, you fag ?

Noun

(en noun)

A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.

An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites).

(nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.

(nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag.

The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.

(computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place.

(computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.

(British) An abbreviation for capture the flag.

Noun

(en noun)

Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus .

* before 1899 , Robert Seymour Bridges, There is a Hill :

And laden barges float

By banks of myosote;

And scented flag and golden flower-de-lys

Delay the loitering boat.

Noun

(en noun)

A slice of turf; a sod.

A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.

(geology) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.

Noun

(en noun)

A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.

A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.

The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.

(music) A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value