frag

English

Etymology

Shortened from fragmentation grenade.

Pronunciation

• enPR: frăg, IPA^(key): /fɹæɡ/

• Audio (AU)

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• Homophone: phrag
• Rhymes: -æɡ

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

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.
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

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

to kill (another player) in a deathmatch computer game

• Finnish: tappaa (fi), frägätä

See also

• gib
• first-person shooter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Graf, graf

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁaːk/
• Rhymes: -aːk

Verb

frag

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

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Romanian

Etymology

From fragă.

Noun

frag m (plural fragi)

1. woodland strawberry plant, Fragaria vesca

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Volapük

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