Meanings
plural frags
- 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) - 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!
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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)
present singular third person frags · participle present fragging · participle past fragged · past fragged
- 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 Kane1 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 - slangtransitivegovernmentTo hit with the explosion of a fragmentation grenade.
I fragged him once and then meleed him for the kill.
- 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)
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Clipping of fragmentation grenade, from fragmentation + grenade.
Full word history & related roots →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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frag. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frag
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