fragger
Syllables: frag·gerUK/ˈfɹæɡə/US/ˈfɹæɡɚ/
fragger noun: one who frags (deliberately kills a superior officer with a fragmentation grenade).
Noun
fragger (plural fraggers)
- One who frags (deliberately kills a superior officer with a fragmentation grenade).
- The public read about the fraggers, the drug users and the unit that balked in combat. It heard little about the much more numerous draftees and short‐term enlistees who routinely spent their nights aggressively patrolling in the mud of the Delta and much of their days voluntarily helping villagers...1973 April 18, L. James Binder, “An Army Come Home”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- They were not a band of rebellious “fraggers” assassinating their officers or marauding killers piling up body counts of the innocent in a haze of marijuana smoke.2017 April 11, James Wright, “The Baby Boomer War”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Forms of fragger
| plural | fraggers |
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Origin of fragger
From frag + -er.
Questions about fragger
- What does fragger mean?
- Fragger means one who frags (deliberately kills a superior officer with a fragmentation grenade).
- What part of speech is fragger?
- Fragger is a noun.
- How do you pronounce fragger?
- Fragger is pronounced /ˈfɹæɡə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of fragger?
- The plural of fragger is fraggers.
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