fag out

[sagehen]

Jonathan writes:

>Intrans. "fag out" (to become wearied to exhaustion) is not commonly used
>by U.S. speakers in my experience, but undergraduates frequently report it
>as "slang," presumably because they've read it somewhere in an English
>class.  Trans. "fag (out)" (to weary to exhuastion) and adj. "fagged"
>(exhausted) may be more common, but none are typical.
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"Fagged out" has been unambiguously "dead tired" nearly all my life, though
I don't hear it much any more.  It co-existed with "faggot" without causing
confusion  (or sniggering,  that I knew of) or any sense of double entendre
when I was growing up.  I would still use it without thinking twice.
AM

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