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Assault with a grenade, as a superior officer
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frag
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
frag \frag\ (fr[a^]g), v. t. [imp. & p. p. fragged (fr[a^]gd); p. pr. & vb. n. fragging .] [by shortening from fragmentation grenade; c 1965.] (Mil.) To assault, especially to kill or wound, with a fragmentation grenade. [Slang] Note: This term became popularized ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
by 1970, U.S. military slang, back-formed verb from slang noun shortening of fragmentation grenade (1918), which was said to have been the weapon of choice over a firearm because the evidence is destroyed in the act. Related: Fragged ; fragging .
Usage examples of frag.
It meant their top gun had finally got them some biz, or at least some kinda offer, and about fragging time, too.
She had caulked the wood with fresh frag sap, learning that it did quite well if applied in many thin coats and allowed to dry between.
But it might be a burner, a frag, a high-ex, a shrap, a stun or a smoke.
Teeth gritted in fury, face soaked with the upcast spray of the maelstrom, I followed him with frag fire, trying to keep him in the sight long enough to get a hit.
If anything, he told himself, the Flenser Frag was in greater danger because of it: in trying to counter the fear, Steel might just miscalculate, and act more violently than was appropriate.
The big surfer had a heavy antique frag rifle cradled in his arms, Tres hefted her blaster left-handed to make room for the Kalashnikov solid-load in her right.
Peripheral vision told me Brasil had done the same with the frag rifle, and that Sierra Tres had her arms at her sides.
If anything, he told himself, the Flenser Frag was in greater danger because of it: in trying to counter the fear, Steel might just miscalculate, and act more violently than was appropriate.
The great Y incision down the chest and abdomen that Richards had made during the autopsy was stitched closed, as were the wounds where the frags had done their worst damage.
Razor pitched out two more frags, then dropped the white smoke grenade right in front of them.
But this time it was clutching a huge, fragging hogleg of a six-shooter revolver.
Frag, she practically apologized for breathing the same air they did.
Standing amid the rubble of the ruins that circled the preDark city, the chameleonic muties were fragging difficult to track properly.
He's a damned good man - but it's decidedly questionable whether he has got whatever it is that made Tugwell, Wanacek and Charlevoix work straight through for seventy two hours, napping now and then on benches and grabbing coffee and sandwiches when they could, until they got that frag bomb straightened out.
He's a damned good man — but it's decidedly questionable whether he has got whatever it is that made Tugwell, Wanacek and Charlevoix work straight through for seventy two hours, napping now and then on benches and grabbing coffee and sandwiches when they could, until they got that frag bomb straightened out.