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English
Etymology
Clipping of fragmentation grenade
Pronunciation
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!
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.
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
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German
Pronunciation
Verb
frag
- singular imperative of fragen
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of fragen
Romanian
Etymology
From fragă.
Noun
frag m (plural fragi)
- woodland strawberry plant, Fragaria vesca
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English frag.
Noun
frag c
- (video games) a frag
Declension
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Volapük
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Noun
frag (nominative plural frags)
- strawberry (fruit, achene, akene)
Declension
declension of frag
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
Derived terms
Welsh
Pronunciation
Noun
frag
- Soft mutation of brag.
Mutation