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 (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

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Volapük

Etymology

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.

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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.