frat

plural frats

1. attributiveoftenShortened form of fraternity, college organization.

   frat party

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   See you at the frat house.

   All the frats will be there.

   "But the cultural conflict between these two post-revolutionary styles — between frat guys and feminist bluestockings, Gamergaters and the diversity police, alt-right provocateurs and 'woke' dudebros, the mouthbreathers who poured hate on the all-female 'Ghostbusters' and the tastemakers who pretended it was good — is likely here to stay."

   2016 August 14, Ross Douthat, “A Playboy for President”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 13 Aug 2016

   And Florida State University suspended all frats and sororities for two months after the November 2017 death of Pi Kappa Phi pledge Andrew Coffey, which has since been determined to have been due to hazing, according to police.

   2018 August 25, Dakin Andone, “They pledge. Get hazed. The cycle continues”, in CNN, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2024

present singular third person frats · participle present fratting · participle past fratted · past fratted

1. intransitiveslangTo fraternize.

   […] "fratting" (fraternising) a bit with the frauleins, who were apparently not at all reluctant to be "fratted" with.

   1967, Sir John George Smyth, Bolo Whistler: The Life of General Sir Lashmer Whistler, page 159