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Brag vs Frag - What's the difference?

brag | frag |

As verbs the difference between brag and frag

is that brag is to boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, can do, or has done while frag is (transitive|us|military|slang) to deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade.

As nouns the difference between brag and frag

is that brag is a boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification while frag is (video games|slang) a successful kill in a deathmatch game.

As an adjective brag

is first-rate.

As an adverb brag

is (obsolete) proudly; boastfully.

brag

English

Verb

  • To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, can do, or has done.
    • to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money
  • * Shakespeare
    • Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, / Brags of his substance, not of ornament.
  • To boast of.
  • *Shakespeare
    • Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade

    Synonyms

    * boast

    Derived terms

    * braggart * bragging rights * humblebrag

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Caesar made not here his brag / Of "came", and "saw", and "overcame".
  • The thing which is boasted of.
  • * Milton
    • Beauty is Nature's brag .
  • (by ellipsis) The card game three card brag.
    • (Chesterfield)

    Adjective

    (bragger)
  • First-rate.
  • (archaic) Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • a brag young fellow

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (obsolete) proudly; boastfully
    • (Fuller)

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    frag

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (video games, slang) A successful kill in a deathmatch game.
    • I'd been fighting him for ages, and then you stole my frag !
  • (military, slang) A fragmentation grenade.

    • Derived terms

    * fragfest

    Verb

    (fragg)
  • (transitive, US, military, slang) To deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade.
  • (transitive, military, and, video games, slang) To hit with the explosion of a fragmentation grenade.
    • I fragged him once and then meleed him for the kill.
  • (video games) To kill.
  • * 1996 , "Martin Cox", Stupid frags ...'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.computer.doom.playing )
    • I have pistol-fragged far superior players coming at me with a shotgun with 100% health.
    I fragged him but he fell off the ledge afterwards.

    See also

    * gib * (first-person shooter)

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