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   [frag] verb, fragged, frag·ging, noun U.S. Army and Marine Corps Slang.
verb (used with object)
1.
to kill, wound, or assault (especially an unpopular or overzealous superior) with a fragmentation grenade.
noun
2.
fragmentation grenade.

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Origin:
1965–70, Americanism; by shortening

Related forms
frag·ger, noun
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frag (fræɡ)
 
—vb , frags, fragging, fragged
slang (US) (tr) military to kill or wound (a fellow soldier or superior officer) deliberately with an explosive device
 
[C20: short for fragmentation grenade, as used in Vietnam]
 
'fragging
 
—n

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frag
by 1970, U.S. military slang, from slang noun shortening of fragmentation grenade (1918). Related: Fragged; fragging.
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"Fragging is a macabre ritual of Vietnam in which American enlisted men attempt to murder their superiors. The word comes from the nickname for hand grenades, a weapon popular with enlisted men because the evidence is destroyed with the consummation of the crime." ["Saturday Review," Jan. 8, 1972]
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frag definition

[fræg]
  1. tv.
    to assassinate an unpopular military officer in Vietnam. (Military.) : The guy was so certain that nobody was going to frag him that he got careless and Charlie got him.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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fragment
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