fragging
/ˈfɹæɡɪŋ/noun, verb
fragging is a noun meaning “The premeditated murder of one's superior officer in a military unit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-A-G-G-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fragging is fraggings.
What does fragging mean?
noun
- 1
USslangThe premeditated murder of one's superior officer in a military unit.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of frag
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fragging?
- /ˈfɹæɡɪŋ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-fragging.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fragging
- fraggings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fragging?
Fragging appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fragging come from?
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.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).