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Noun: fag end  fag end
Usage: informal
  1. The time of the last part of something
    "the fag end of this crisis-ridden century";
    - tail, tail end
     
  2. The frayed end of a length of cloth or rope
     
  3. [Brit, informal] Small part of a cigarette that is left after smoking
    - cigarette butt

Derived forms: fag ends

Type of: butt, end, ending, oddment, remainder, remnant, stub

Part of: butt, cig [informal], cigaret [US], cigarette, ciggy [Brit, informal], coffin nail [informal], durry [Austral, informal], fag [Brit, informal], gasper [Brit, informal]

Encyclopedia: Fag end