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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?æk??/

Etymology 1

frack +? -ing

Alternative forms

• fraccing, fracing

Noun

fracking (usually uncountable, plural frackings)

1. (oil industry) Hydraulic fracturing.
   • 2010, Andrew Chung, "Quebec between a rock and a hard place on gas from shale," Toronto Star, 25 July (retrieved 26 July 2010):

     Still, environmentalists look to the U.S., where drilling with fracking is now a “megatrend” and where thousands of wells dot the landscape in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado. They worry about higher greenhouse gas emissions compared to conventional natural gas—because of the energy used to get the gas—and water contamination.

Translations

Descendants

• ? Korean: ??? (peuraeking)

Etymology 2

frack +? -ing

Adjective

fracking (not comparable)

1. (slang, euphemistic, bowdlerization) Fucking.

Further reading

• fracking on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

Noun

fracking m (uncountable)

1. fracking

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?æk/

Etymology 1

From an abbreviated form of fracture. Also found in English hydrofracking.

Verb

frack (third-person singular simple present fracks, present participle fracking, simple past and past participle fracked)

1. (oil industry) To employ hydraulic fracturing (fracking)

Etymology 2

Original and alternate spelling for English frak. See frak.

Alternative forms

• frac, frak

Verb

frack (third-person singular simple present fracks, present participle fracking, simple past and past participle fracked)

1. (slang, euphemistic) Fuck.

Synonyms

• eff, feck, frak, frig; see also Thesaurus:copulate or Thesaurus:copulate with

Etymology 3

Adjective

frack (comparative more frack, superlative most frack)

1. Alternative form of freck

References

• Wikipedia frack.
• Battlestarwiki frack
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.