fragger

English

Etymology

frag +‎ -er

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Noun

fragger (plural fraggers)

1. (US military slang) One who frags (deliberately kills a superior officer with a fragmentation grenade).
   • 1973 April 18, L. James Binder, “An Army Come Home”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The public read about the fraggers, the drug users and the unit that balked in combat. It heard little about the much more numerous draftees and short‐term enlistees who routinely spent their nights aggressively patrolling in the mud of the Delta and much of their days voluntarily helping villagers near their fire bases build roads and houses.

   • 2017 April 11, James Wright, “The Baby Boomer War”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     They were not a band of rebellious “fraggers” assassinating their officers or marauding killers piling up body counts of the innocent in a haze of marijuana smoke.