Clipping of fragmentation grenade, from fragmentation + grenade.
Meanings
(slang) A 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):
(slang) A successful kill in a deathmatch game. A point or score (when considered collectively) gained by successfully killing opponents in a deathmatch game.
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):
I'd been fighting him for ages, and then you stole my frag!
fr kill (A successful kill in a deathmatch game) · mr फ्रॅग (A successful kill in a deathmatch game) · fi tappo (A successful kill in a deathmatch game) · fi frägi (A successful kill in a deathmatch game) · fr frag (A successful kill in a deathmatch game)
Clipping of fragmentation grenade, from fragmentation + grenade.
Meanings
(US, slang, transitive) To deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade.
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:
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:
(slang, transitive) To hit with the explosion of a fragmentation grenade.
I fragged him once and then meleed him for the kill.
To kill.
I fragged him but he fell off the ledge afterwards.
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):
fr tuer (to kill (another player) in a deathmatch computer game) · fi tappaa (to kill (another player) in a deathmatch computer game) · fi frägätä (to kill (another player) in a deathmatch computer game)