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)
- (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.
- (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
Translations
A successful kill in a deathmatch game
Verb
frag (third-person singular simple present frags, present participle fragging, simple past and past participle fragged)
- (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.”
- (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.
- (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
Translations
to deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade
to kill (another player) in a deathmatch computer game
See also
Further reading
- first-person shooter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fʁaːk/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -aːk
Verb
frag
Romanian
Etymology
From fragă.
Noun
frag m (plural fragi)
Declension
singular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | frag | fragul | fragi | fragii | |
genitive-dative | frag | fragului | fragi | fragilor | |
vocative | fragule | fragilor |
Swedish
Etymology
Noun
frag c
- (video games) a frag
Declension
nominative | genitive | ||
---|---|---|---|
singular | indefinite | frag | frags |
definite | fragen | fragens | |
plural | indefinite | frags | frags |
definite | fragarna | fragarnas |
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References
Volapük
Etymology
Latin frāgum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [fɾaɡ]
Noun
frag (nominative plural frags)
- strawberry (fruit, achene, akene)
Declension
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
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vraːɡ/
Noun
frag
- soft mutation of brag