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fracks

fracks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of frack.

Meaning of frack

Verb (1)

frack (third-person singular simple present fracks, present participle fracking, simple past and past participle fracked)

  1. (ambitransitive, oil industry) To employ hydraulic fracturing (fracking).
    • Mrs. Crawley recalled driving past the Riverdale Mobile Home Park, whose residents were being forced out to make way for a facility that would withdraw water from the river to frack gas wells, in the summer of 2012 and seeing a bunch of “picketers” from “out of the area that just came in and camped...2021 September 17, Colin Jerolmack, Tristan Spinski, “They Couldn’t Drink Their Water. And Still, They Stayed Quiet.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2021

Verb (2)

frack (third-person singular simple present fracks, present participle fracking, simple past and past participle fracked)

  1. (euphemistic, slang) Fuck.
    • Frack! The impact must have twisted the bulkhead just enough to jam the door.1978 December 17, “Fire in Space”, in Battlestar Galactica, season 1, episode 12, spoken by Lieutenant Boomer (Herbert Jefferson, Jr.)

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Questions about fracks

What is fracks the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Fracks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of frack.

Words near fracks in the dictionary

  1. fracked
  2. fracker
  3. frackers
  4. fracking
  5. frackings
  6. fracks
  7. fracktivist
  8. fracktivists
  9. fracs
  10. fract
  11. fractable

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