frag

See also: Fråg

English

Etymology

Clipping of fragmentation grenade

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɹæɡ/, enPR: frăg
  • Audio (General Australian):(file)
  • Homophone: phrag
  • Rhymes: -æɡ

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!

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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.

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German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fʁaːk/
  • Audio:(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

Declension of frag
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

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Volapük

Etymology

Latin frāgum.

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

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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.