fragging
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English
Etymology
Present participle of frag, from a clipping of fragmentation grenade, because those who committed fragging during the Vietnam War threw fragmentation grenades at their superior officers.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɹæɡɪŋ/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
fragging (plural fraggings)
- (US military slang) The premeditated murder of one's superior officer in a military unit
- 2004, Martin Torgoff, “Next Stop is Vietnam”, in Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 175:
- Fraggings—the intentional killings of officers by their own troops—were already occurring.
Descendants
- → Korean: 프래깅 (peuraeging)
Verb
fragging
- present participle and gerund of frag
