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frag

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

Origin:
1965–70, Americanism; by shortening


fragger, noun
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frag   (frāg)   
n.  A fragmentation grenade.
tr.v.   fragged, frag·ging, frags
To wound or kill (a fellow soldier) by throwing a grenade or similar explosive at the victim: "He got fragged. Blown away" (Bobbie Ann Mason).
frag'ger n.
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Slang Dictionary
frag [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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Abbreviations & Acronyms
frag
fragment
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