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In modern British English, "fag" is a colloquialism for a cigarette, as in "I'm gasping for a fag", "Where can I get some fags?", or "Can I bum a fag?" (can I borrow a cigarette?). It was originally a reference to a cigarette-butt or cigar-butt and comes from the expression "fag-end," meaning the leftover or useless part of any thing.
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