frack meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

frack

verb

/fɹæk/

Etymology From an abbreviated form of fracture. Also found in English hydrofracking.

Ambitransitive 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 up there” as part of what supporters called Occupy Riverdale.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

Etymology Original and alternative spelling for English frak. See frak.

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.):
“Stupid fracking hammer! Where is it?” While David and Matt had been bowled to the back of the autobus, she'd fought her way to the front—and the emergency cutoff switch. This was supposed to stop the bus dead in its tracks.2001 May 1, Tom Clancy, Steve Pieczenik, Bill McCay, Tom Clancy's Net Force: Cold Case, Penguin, →ISBN:

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"Not by a single, stupid, fracking day."2014 August 5, Mary Behre, Guarded, Penguin, →ISBN, page 50:

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