fragging

noun

fragging

noun

/ˈfɹæɡɪŋ/

Etymology 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.

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Government, Military, Politics, War US, Slang The premeditated murder of one's superior officer in a military unit

  • Fraggings—the intentional killings of officers by their own troops—were already occurring.2004, Martin Torgoff, “Next Stop is Vietnam”, in Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 175:

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