frag

See also: Fråg

English

Etymology

Clipping of fragmentation grenade.

Pronunciation

• (without æ-raising before /ɡ/) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹæɡ/, [ˈfɹʷæɡ]

  • Audio (General Australian):

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• (æ-raising before /ɡ/)
  • (Upper Midwestern US, Northwestern US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹeɪ̯ɡ/, [ˈfɹʷeɪ̯ɡ]
• Rhymes: -æɡ
• Hyphenation: frag
• Homophone: phrag

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
• parafrag

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
• fraggable
• 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 (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• 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

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	frag	fragul	fragi	fragii
genitive-dative	frag	fragului	fragi	fragilor
vocative	fragule		fragilor

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English frag.

Noun

frag c

1. (video games) a frag

Declension

Declension of frag

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	frag	frags
	definite	fragen	fragens
plural	indefinite	frags	frags
	definite	fragarna	fragarnas

Related terms

• fragga

See also

• telefrag

References

• Slangopedia

Volapük

Etymology

From Latin frāgum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fɾaɡ]

Noun

frag (genitive fraga, 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
Predicative1	fragu	fragus
Vocative	o frag	o frags

1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

Derived terms

• fragaplan

Further reading

• “frag”, in Vödabuk (in English, Esperanto, and Volapük)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vraːɡ/

Noun

frag

1. soft mutation of brag

Mutation

Mutated forms of brag

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
brag	frag	mrag	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.