fragging en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈfɹæɡɪŋ/
- (Australia) audio
Etymology
Present participle of frag, from a clipping of fragmentation grenade, because those who committed fragging during the Vietnam War threw fragmentation grenades at their superior officers.
Meanings
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(US, countable, slang, uncountable) The premeditated murder of one's superior officer in a military unit.
Fraggings—the intentional killings of officers by their own troops—were already occurring.
2004, Martin Torgoff, “Next Stop is Vietnam”, in Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 175:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| fraggings | Number=Plur | lexicographic |