Frag

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Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Transitive verb 1.4 Noun 1.5 See also 1.6 Further reading

English

Pronunciation

• IPA /'fræg/

Etymology

From U.S. military slang in the Vietnam War, frag commonly meant to kill an unpopular member of one's own unit by dropping a fragmentation grenade in their tent. It was popularised as a gaming term by the first-person shooter computer games Quake and Unreal Tournament.

Transitive verb

to frag (past and past participle fragged)

1. to kill another player (or computer opponent) in a deathmatch computer game.

   I fragged him but he fell off the ledge afterwards.

2. to kill another player (or computer opponent) with a grenade in the computer game.

Noun

frag (plural frags)

1. a successful kill in a deathmatch game

   I'd been fighting him for ages, and then you stole my frag!

2. (in plural) the number of kills in a deathmatch game

   I got 40 frags in the last match.

See also

• gib

Further reading

• Wikipedia article of first-person shooters