fag end
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Tweet n. 1. The frayed end of a length of cloth or rope. 2. a. An inferior or worn-out remnant. b. The last part: "the fag end of this crisis-ridden century" (Wallace Irwin, Jr.) [Middle English fagge, fag, broken thread in cloth, something that hangs loose.] |
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