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Frac vs Frag - What's the difference?

frac | frag |

As verbs the difference between frac and frag

is that frac is to use hydraulic fracturing (fraccing while frag is to deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade.

As nouns the difference between frac and frag

is that frac is frac job while frag is a successful kill in a deathmatch game.

As an adjective frac

is relating to or denoting hydraulic fracturing.

frac

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

  • (oil drilling) To use hydraulic fracturing (fraccing )
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date= , year=2011 , first= , last= , author=Arrow , authorlink= , title=Fraccing , site=Arrow Energy citation , format=html , page= , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-01-21 , passage=To date, Arrow has only fracced about 2.5 percent of its wells ... }}

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (oil drilling) Relating to or denoting hydraulic fracturing
  • * {{quote-news
    • , date=2012-01-03 , first= , last= , author=Ralph Benko , authorlink= , coauthors= , title=Daniel Yergin's The Quest , newspaper=Forbes , city= , publisher= , quotee= citation , page= , passage=More than a million wells have been fracced in the United States since the first frac job six decades ago. }}
  • * {{quote-news
    • , date=2012-01-26 , first= , last= , author=Jonathan Fahey , authorlink= , coauthors= , title=No energy industry backing for the word 'fracking' , newspaper=Yahoo News , city= , publisher= , quotee= citation , page= , passage=The drilling industry has generally spelled the word without a "K," using terms like "frac' job" or "' frac fluid." }}

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (oil industry) Frac job.
  • * '>citation

    • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Fracture.
  • Fracturing.

    • Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Fraction
  • Fractioning

    • Derived terms

    * frac job * frac spread ----

    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)

    Anagrams

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