frag
See also: Fråg
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Clipping of fragmentation grenade
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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.
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A successful kill in a deathmatch game
Verb edit
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.
- 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.
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to deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade
to kill (another player) in a deathmatch computer game
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- first-person shooter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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frag
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From fragă.
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frag m (plural fragi)
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frag c
- (video games) a frag
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | frag | fragen | frags | fragarna |
Genitive | frags | fragens | frags | fragarnas |
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frag (nominative plural frags)
- strawberry (fruit, achene, akene)
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declension of frag
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frag
- Soft mutation of brag.
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
brag | frag | mrag | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |