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• n  offensive term for an openly homosexual man
• n  a bundle of sticks and branches bound together
• v  ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch
• v  fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them
• v  bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot
  faggot up the sticks

• Calling someone "faggot" out of anger or contempt is one thing; quoting the word faggot or acknowledging that the word faggot is a slur that exists in the world--as I did in this .
• Kit Ryder calls himself "a 20th century faggot" and cruises the Strip, hustling for bread.
• If you're wondering why kids still use "faggot" as a slur to mean weak and simpering, it's because gays too often whine about silly things like not being able to use a dating .

• fagot
• fag
• fairy
• nance
• pansy
• queen
• queer
• poof
• poove
• pouf
• faggot up

News & Articles

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• Victim calls beating gay bashing
  Crime Victim calls beating gay bashing Man says assailants repeatedly called him 'faggot' as they brutally pummeled him outside convenience store. Register Sandusky Jun 20, 2013 if (!window.OX_ads) { OX_ads = []; } OX_ads.push({ "auid" : "417989" }); document.write(' '); By COURTNEY ASTOLFI astolfi@sanduskyregister.com A Norwalk man brutally beaten outside a local convenience store Monday ...
  June 20, 2013 - The Sandusky Register
• Accused homophobic West Village killer says victim had it coming
  Getty ImagesSigns and flowers are left at a memorial for Mark Carson who was killed after Elliot Morales allegedly yelled homophobic slurs at Carson before shooting him in the head on May 22, 2013 in the West Village. The “faggot” had it coming, a homophobic ex con boasted after last...
  June 18, 2013 - New York Post
• Brooklyn DA fires head of Gang Bureau over racial and homophobic slurs
  Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes has fired the head of his Gang Bureau for using homophobic language and calling a top prosecutor “the head n----r,” The Post has learned. Deanna Rodriguez had been suspended since March for using terms including “faggot” and “dyke” to insult interns, paralegals and assistant DAs...
  June 15, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• Isaiah Washington in International Herald Tribune
  I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot,' so I'm - so, kind of at an impasse, can't really talk about Edwards, so I... Ann Coulter http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHB9exftsoBrlfrXGFSOIzXhKUw_Q CNN http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/04/coulter.edwards/&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFh7yWWlmr_fW9i5I5YarqsuLQ3sQ Mar 3, 2007 36019 45496 faggot No, I did not call (co-star) TR (Knight) a faggot," Washington said. "Never happened, never happened."
• TR Knight in Washington Post
  He referred to me as a faggot. Everyone heard it,Knight said of the October squabble.