Crossword clues for frag
frag
- Assault with a grenade, as a commanding officer
- Wound, in a way, as a fellow G.I.
- Assault with a grenade, as a superior officer
- Assault, as a commanding officer
- Certain grenade, for short
- Wound, in a way, as a fellow G.I
- Wound with a grenade
- Grenade that shatters, for short
- Easily broken: Abbr
- Dangerous grenade, to a GI
- Assault a superior officer
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
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1965.] (Mil.) To assault, especially to kill or wound, with a fragmentation grenade. [Slang]
Note: This term became popularized when disaffected American troops serving in Vietnam were reported on occasion to kill unpopular commanders by the use of grenades.
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context video games slang English) A successful kill in a deathmatch game. 2 (context military slang English) A fragmentation grenade. vb. 1 (context transitive US military slang English) To deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade. 2 (context transitive military and video games slang English) To hit with the explosion of a fragmentation grenade. 3 (context video games English) To kill.
Wikipedia
Frag may refer to:
- Fragmentation grenade, in military, a type of hand grenade
- Fragging, deliberate killing of an unpopular member of one's own fighting unit, occasionally using a fragmentation grenade
- In deathmatch computer games, frag means to kill someone temporarily, originated from the military term
- Frag (game), a board game published by Steve Jackson Games, inspired from fragging in video games
- Fragmentation (reproduction), a form of asexual propagation in aquariums with coral
- Frag, a DC Comics character, and member of The Blasters
- Fragmentation (computing), a phenomenon during which storage space is used inefficiently in computer storage
Frag is a first-person shooter-themed board game published by Steve Jackson Games in the summer of 2001. It was developed by Steve Jackson and Philip Reed, and illustrated by Alex Fernandez.
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.