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English

Etymology

Shortened from fragmentation grenade.

Pronunciation

• enPR: fr?g, IPA^(key): /f?æ?/
• Homophone: phrag
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

frag (plural frags)

1. (military, slang) A fragmentation grenade.
   • 1986, Oliver Stone, Platoon (film script)

     ELIAS: 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.

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

Derived terms

• fragfest

Translations

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.
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.
   • 1996, "Martin Cox", Stupid frags ... (on newsgroup rec.games.computer.doom.playing)

     I have pistol-fragged far superior players coming at me with a shotgun with 100% health.

   I fragged him but he fell off the ledge afterwards.

Derived terms

• telefrag

Translations

See also

• gib
• first-person shooter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Graf, graf

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?a?k/
• Rhymes: -a?k

Verb

frag

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

Romanian

Etymology

From frag?.

Noun

frag m (plural fragi)

1. woodland strawberry plant, Fragaria vesca

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [f?a?]

Noun

frag (nominative plural frags)

1. strawberry (fruit, achene, akene)

Declension

Derived terms

• fragaplan

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?æp/
• Rhymes: -æp
• Homophone: frappe

Etymology 1

From Old French fraper

Verb

frap (third-person singular simple present fraps, present participle frapping, simple past and past participle frapped)

1. (nautical) To draw together tightly; to secure by many turns of a lashing.
   • 1941, Boy Scout Tests and How to Pass Them, Boy Scouts Association, page 20.

     Next take two turns not round the spars at all but in between them round the rope itself. These turns are called "frapping" turns and must be very tight too.

2. (transitive) To strike or beat.
   • 1971, MotorBoating (volume 128, number 5, page 98)

     Mitch and Dick took me frog frapping, too. […] You just shine your light in the frog's eyes, creep up on him, and frap him over the head with the stick!

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

frap (plural fraps)

1. (informal) Clipping of frappuccino.
   • 2005, Information Week (issues 1020-1036)

     Well then, what's the hottest new product line over at ubiquitous coffee retailer Starbucks — diesel fuel? No, it's not petrochemical, but neither is it coffee — rather, it's music. In Starbucks stores, you can now burn CDs while slurping a frap, […]