frag

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US, UK/fɹæɡ/British, Northern England, Southern, Standard/fɹaɡ/Scotland, Wales/fɾaɡ/Australia/fɹæ(ː)ɡ/

noun

A fragmentation grenade.

“I fragged him once and then meleed him for the kill.”

Less commonScrabble 8

Meanings

nounfrag (plural frags)

plural frags

  1. slanggovernmentA fragmentation grenade.

    Police up your extra ammo and frags, don't leave nothing for the dinks.

    1986, Oliver Stone, Platoon, spoken by Sergeant Elias (Willem Dafoe)
  2. slangvideo gamesA 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!

    1 more example

    Oh, man. Did you play Online Gaming last night? No, yeah, no? I did. I got so many frags.

    2004 August 16, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #111: other days”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Homestar Runner (Matthew Chapman)
verbfrag (third-person singular simple present frags, present participle fragging, simple past and past participle fragged)

present singular third person frags · participle present fragging · participle past fragged · past fragged

  1. USslangtransitivegovernmentTo deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade.

    One guy? I fragged a couple of hundred in 'Nam.

    1974 January 13, Peter S. Fischer, “Publish or Perish” (00:03:23 from the start), in Columbo, season 3, episode 5, spoken by Eddie Kane
    1 more example

    Cowboy says in a low voice: “Never turn your back on Mother. Never cut him any slack. He fragged Mr. Shortround.”

    1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 173
  2. slangtransitivegovernmentTo hit with the explosion of a fragmentation grenade.

    I fragged him once and then meleed him for the kill.

  3. video gamesTo kill.

    I fragged him but he fell off the ledge afterwards.

    1 more example

    I have pistol-fragged far superior players coming at me with a shotgun with 100% health.

    1996, Martin Cox, “Stupid frags ...”, in rec.games.computer.doom.playing (Usenet)

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Translations

Finnish tappo, frägi
  • tappoA successful kill in a deathmatch game
  • frägiA successful kill in a deathmatch game
  • tappaato kill (another player) in a deathmatch computer game
  • frägätäto kill (another player) in a deathmatch computer game
French frag, kill
  • fragA successful kill in a deathmatch game
  • killA successful kill in a deathmatch game
  • tuerto kill (another player) in a deathmatch computer game

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APA

frag. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frag

MLA

“frag.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frag. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “frag,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frag.

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