"frak" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /fɹæk/ Forms: fraks [present, singular, third-person], frakking [participle, present], frakked [participle, past], frakked [past]
Rhymes: -æk Etymology: Coined by an author of Battlestar Galactica (TV series). It was English frack in the original series. Changed to frak in the later series to be a four-letter word. (Compare English fraked (“evil, wicked”) and English frakel (“vile, foul, wretched, worthless”)) Etymology templates: {{cog|en|frack}} English frack, {{cog|en|fraked||evil, wicked}} English fraked (“evil, wicked”), {{cog|en|frakel||vile, foul, wretched, worthless}} English frakel (“vile, foul, wretched, worthless”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} frak (third-person singular simple present fraks, present participle frakking, simple past and past participle frakked)
  1. (slang, euphemistic) Fuck. Tags: euphemistic, slang Synonyms: eff, feck, frack, frig, copulate, copulate with
    Sense id: en-frak-en-verb-mafgOnC~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English euphemisms

Inflected forms

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