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Definition of fag end noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

fag end

noun(British English, informal)
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  1. [countable]
     
    /ˈfæɡ end/
     
    /ˈfæɡ end/
     the last part of a cigarette that is left after it has been smoked
    • The floor was littered with fag ends.
  2. [singular]
     
    /ˌfæɡ ˈend/
     
    /ˌfæɡ ˈend/
     the fag end of something the last part of something, especially when it is less important or interesting
    • I only caught the fag end of their conversation.
    • the fag end of England’s industrial heyday
    3. Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘remnant’): from 15th-cent. fag ‘a flap’, of unknown origin. The current sense dates from the early 20th cent.
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