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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

back-of-a-fag-packet en · ADJ

Etymology

See fag (“cigarette”).

Meanings

  1. (UK, not-comparable, slang) Synonym of back-of-the-envelope.
    • […] back-of-a-fag-packet calculations concur: the areas of the Maltepe and Yenikapı parade grounds are roughly similar […] 2019, Hannah Lucinda Smith, Erdogan Rising: The Battle for the Soul of Turkey:

Synonyms

back-of-the-envelope