Face the Music. To bear the jeers and taunts of those who laugh at us. Factory King. Richard Oastler of Bradford, the promoter of the “Ten Hours’ Bill.” Fag. Slang for a cigarette, derived from the fag end--i.e. fatigued or spent end--of a cigar. Also a small boy who acts as a drudge in the service of another at a public school, so called from the Anglo-Saxon fæge, weak, timid. Fair Cop. Thieves..