frag

See also: Fråg

English

Etymology

Clipping of fragmentation grenade

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɹæɡ/, enPR: frăg

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Homophone: phrag
• Rhymes: -æɡ

Noun

frag (plural frags)

1. (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.

2. (video games, slang) A successful kill in a deathmatch game. A point or score (when considered collectively) gained by successfully killing opponents in a deathmatch game.

   I'd been fighting him for ages, and then you stole my frag!

   • 2004 August 16, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #111: other days”, in Homestar Runner‎^[1], spoken by Homestar Runner (Matthew Chapman):

     Oh, man. Did you play Online Gaming last night? No, yeah, no? I did. I got so many frags.

Derived terms

• fragfest
• fragicide

Translations

A successful kill in a deathmatch game

• Finnish: tappo (fi), frägi
• French: frag (fr) m, kill (fr) m (slang)
• Marathi: फ्रॅग (phrĕg)

Verb

frag (third-person singular simple present frags, present participle fragging, simple past and past participle fragged)

1. (transitive, US military slang) To deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade.
   • 1974 January 13, Peter S. Fischer, “Publish or Perish” (00:03:23 from the start), in Columbo, season 3, episode 5, spoken by Eddie Kane:

     One guy? I fragged a couple of hundred in 'Nam.

   • 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.”

2. (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.

3. (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.

Derived terms

• bottom frag
• fragger
• fragging
• telefrag

Translations

to deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade

to kill (another player) in a deathmatch computer game

• Finnish: tappaa (fi), frägätä
• French: tuer (fr)

See also

• gib

Further reading

• first-person shooter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Graf, graf

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁaːk/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aːk

Verb

frag

1. singular imperative of fragen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of fragen

Romanian

Etymology

From fragă.

Noun

frag m (plural fragi)

1. woodland strawberry plant, Fragaria vesca

Declension

Declension of frag

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) frag	fragul	(niște) fragi	fragii
genitive/dative	(unui) frag	fragului	(unor) fragi	fragilor
vocative	fragule		fragilor

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English frag.

Noun

frag c

1. (video games) a frag

Declension

Declension of frag
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	frag	fragen	frags	fragarna
Genitive	frags	fragens	frags	fragarnas

Related terms

• fragga

See also

• telefrag

References

• Slangopedia

Volapük

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fɾaɡ]

Noun

frag (nominative plural frags)

1. strawberry (fruit, achene, akene)

Declension

declension of frag

	singular	plural
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

• fragaplan

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vraːɡ/

Noun

frag

1. Soft mutation of brag.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
brag	frag	mrag	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.