frag
English
Etymology
Shortened from fragmentation grenade.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɹæɡ/, enPR: frăg
Audio (AU) (file) - Homophone: phrag
- Rhymes: -æɡ
Noun
frag (plural frags)
- (military slang) A fragmentation grenade.
- 1986, Oliver Stone, Platoon, spoken by Sergeant Elias (Willem Dafoe):
- Police up your extra ammo and frags, don't leave nothing for the dinks.
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- (video games, slang) A successful kill in a deathmatch game.
- I'd been fighting him for ages, and then you stole my frag!
Derived terms
- fragfest
- fragicide
Translations
Verb
frag (third-person singular simple present frags, present participle fragging, simple past and past participle fragged)
- (transitive, US military slang) To deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade.
- 1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 173:
- Cowboy says in a low voice: “Never turn your back on Mother. Never cut him any slack. He fragged Mr. Shortround.”
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- (transitive, military and video games, slang) To hit with the explosion of a fragmentation grenade.
- I fragged him once and then meleed him for the kill.
- (video games) To kill.
- I fragged him but he fell off the ledge afterwards.
- 1996, Martin Cox, “Stupid frags ...”, in rec.games.computer.doom.playing (Usenet):
- I have pistol-fragged far superior players coming at me with a shotgun with 100% health.
Translations
to deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade
See also
Further reading
first-person shooter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fʁaːk/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aːk
Romanian
Etymology
From fragă.
Volapük
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [fɾaɡ]
Declension
declension of frag
singular | plural | |
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nominative | frag | frags |
genitive | fraga | fragas |
dative | frage | frages |
accusative | fragi | fragis |
vocative 1 | o frag! | o frags! |
predicative 2 | fragu | fragus |
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
Derived terms
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