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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烟蒂；香烟头
    • The floor was littered with fag ends.地板上到处都是垃圾。
  2. [singular]
    🔊/ˌfæɡ ˈend/
    🔊/ˌfæɡ ˈend/
     the fag end of something the last part of something, especially when it is less important or interesting（尤指不重要或索然无味的）结尾，末尾
    • I only caught the fag end of their conversation.我仅听到他们谈话的结尾。🔊🔊
    • the fag end of England’s industrial heyday英格兰工业鼎盛时期的终结
    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.