"fratlike" meaning in English

See fratlike in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more fratlike [comparative], most fratlike [superlative]
Etymology: frat + -like Etymology templates: {{suf|en|frat|like}} frat + -like Head templates: {{en-adj}} fratlike (comparative more fratlike, superlative most fratlike)
  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a fraternity (social organization of male students). Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-fratlike-en-adj-Bek-zSU1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -like

Download JSON data for fratlike meaning in English (2.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frat",
        "3": "like"
      },
      "expansion": "frat + -like",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "frat + -like",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more fratlike",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most fratlike",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fratlike (comparative more fratlike, superlative most fratlike)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -like",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000 July 5, Julia Chaplin, “Buzz Off: Secret Bars That Spurn Hype”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "Only top-shelf liquor is served, though Sasha refuses to serve drinks he deems fratlike. These include woo woos, kamikazes and shots of any kind.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 July 7, Nicole Brodeur, “A peek inside ‘Almost Live!’ and Seattle’s unofficial history”, in The Seattle Times",
          "text": "According to a new book, “Almost Live! The Show that wouldn’t Die,” Nelson wanted to make fun of the fratlike culture of some office settings. So he put a few male cast members in an office and had “Almost Live!” star John Keister pop in and ask: “Hey, what are you up to?”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 December 5, Rebecca Jennings, “‘I Wanted to Be Musical.ly Famous. I Really Practiced Those Hand Motions.’ The influence (and aftermath) of an app that only a teen could love.”, in Vulture",
          "text": "Before he was a member of the Sway House — an L.A.-based, fratlike collective of steely jawed TikTokers who make ungodly amounts of money gyrating into their camera phones — Blake Gray was the laughing stock of his high school.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Resembling or characteristic of a fraternity (social organization of male students)."
      ],
      "id": "en-fratlike-en-adj-Bek-zSU1",
      "links": [
        [
          "fraternity",
          "fraternity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Resembling or characteristic of a fraternity (social organization of male students)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fratlike"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frat",
        "3": "like"
      },
      "expansion": "frat + -like",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "frat + -like",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more fratlike",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most fratlike",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fratlike (comparative more fratlike, superlative most fratlike)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -like",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000 July 5, Julia Chaplin, “Buzz Off: Secret Bars That Spurn Hype”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "Only top-shelf liquor is served, though Sasha refuses to serve drinks he deems fratlike. These include woo woos, kamikazes and shots of any kind.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 July 7, Nicole Brodeur, “A peek inside ‘Almost Live!’ and Seattle’s unofficial history”, in The Seattle Times",
          "text": "According to a new book, “Almost Live! The Show that wouldn’t Die,” Nelson wanted to make fun of the fratlike culture of some office settings. So he put a few male cast members in an office and had “Almost Live!” star John Keister pop in and ask: “Hey, what are you up to?”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 December 5, Rebecca Jennings, “‘I Wanted to Be Musical.ly Famous. I Really Practiced Those Hand Motions.’ The influence (and aftermath) of an app that only a teen could love.”, in Vulture",
          "text": "Before he was a member of the Sway House — an L.A.-based, fratlike collective of steely jawed TikTokers who make ungodly amounts of money gyrating into their camera phones — Blake Gray was the laughing stock of his high school.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Resembling or characteristic of a fraternity (social organization of male students)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fraternity",
          "fraternity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Resembling or characteristic of a fraternity (social organization of male students)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fratlike"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (384852d and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.