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fratire en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of frat + satire.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A politically incorrect and overtly masculine style of non-fiction written for and marketed to young men.
    • It is up to you to prove that guy did not use mathematics in his livelihood. he wrote a comedy/fratire book.....that doesn't require mathematics to do. 2013, Michael Press, “Re: maybe this is how I should have gotten married....”, in rec.sport.football.college (Usenet):
    • For those who have never encountered Maddox before: This is the website of a man who made himself successful in the early 200X's by writing a kind of vitriolic, shouty, bro-lit/fratire. Particularly famous is his fan mail response where he mocks children's artwork […] 2013, Alec Zorab, “Re: [scala-functional] Re: Math doesn't suck, you do.”, in scala-functional (Usenet):