Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as freck.
- To abound, swarm, or throng. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.]
- To fill to excess.
- n. A hole in a garment.
Wiktionary
- v. oil industry To employ hydraulic fracturing (fracking)
- v. euphemistic fuck.
Etymologies
- Original and alternate spelling for English frak. See frak. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“All right, Funky Snickers ™ A Derailleur de Jour+, just what the frack is a lawter supposed to be?”
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“Their reference articles on Islam, and their briefings on what the frack is going on will blow you away.”
“Interestingly, though, I believe the word frack was used in both.”
“The word has even appeared in the funny pages where Dilbert muttered a disconsolate "frack" - the original spelling before producers of the current show changed it to a four-letter word - after a particularly dumb order from his evil twit of a boss.”
“Larson originally developed "frack" -- the "C" was removed later by Moore and his team to make it a true four-letter word -- as well as other words like "feldergarb" and "yahrens" to help remind audiences that while they were watching humans, they were still quite alien to what we know society to be like.”
“The makers of Battlestar Galactica even joked in the DVD extras of Season 4.5: “So, what the frack was the plan?””
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: THE PLAN Blu-ray Review – Collider.com
“Much of the water required for a so-called frack job is sourced from lakes, rivers or city water systems, and water is in short supply in some drilling areas, such as drought-plagued Texas.”
“Poseidon, split off from Open Range Energy Corp. in November so it could rent out so-called frack tanks to other producers, may also attract interest from potential buyers, according to Haywood's Ready, a Calgary-based analyst.”
“Well, we know where the fence is that the Nixon, Reagan, and Shrub I/II DoJ's were sitting on are, but where the frack were the LBJ, Carter, and Clinton DoJs?”
“Christ sake, what the frack is the point of this? and many of the TL; DR comments either boil down to”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘frack’.
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one word exclamations
keep it rated G please, thanks!
( open list, randomness )zoiks, sheesh, gosh, shucks, jeez, woot, heck, thunderation, oops, gadzooks, what, hey and 90 more...
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Words I stumble across in TV, Radio, ...
A list for words I stumble across.
pregzilla, vibeology, boombastic, stylomania, bro code, stonker, presenteeism, divorsary, deskclump, desk-clump, desk clump, Bing it, Danno and 123 more...
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Tresgeek's TV Words List
Maybe it's a single-word catchphrase, maybe it's a word that evokes a particular episode, scene, or character, but if you watch as much television as I do, there are certain words you can't use in ...
fantastic, chlamydia, slap, seriously, bears, airlock, frack, spectacular, ah, bach!, yabba dabba do, that's all folks, warning! and 1 more...
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[Open] Yes, it really is a word.
Bona fide words that appear misspelled or made-up. See also “Correctly-spelled words that look like misspellings of other words”.
resplendishant, apprehensible, splendent, splendiferous, magnifical, queem, ostentiferous, squiz, researchful, snaffle, blench, debulition and 22 more...
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Battlestar Galactica swear words (Old...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 3063 more... -
When In Entropic~al English Locales.....
Care about your social environment? Save these endangered words from extinction... don't delay, adopt an out~of~date adjective today!
englishable, toesmithing, zwimmer, woad, wherefore, bobance, pediluvium, ruff, anteloquy, februation, lungeous, chalm and 357 more...
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elvesoncrack's Words
lachrymose, blustering, fjord, chihuahua, chiffon, catalytic, stile, gefilte, prosh, thwart, ralph, ickle and 379 more...
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An Unspecific Gathering
Recently added to be organized (perhaps) later.
metaeuphoria, metaeuphoria, protologism, neologism, contextual, commingling, meta, euphoria, elucidation, disambiguation, hypertextual, kenspeckle and 136 more...
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Nullologue
nullologue, vaudeville, debauchery, debauched, libertine, nothing, dhadak, tz pf, nothingology, goodbyeology, sharmuta, manifesto and 874 more...
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minced oaths
expostulations which originated as euphemisms for a stronger, socially unsanctioned, word or expression
strewth, zounds, land sakes, jiminy cricket, gorblimey, drat, begorrah, cripes, doggone it, gadzooks, odds bodkins, sacre bleu and 78 more...
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if you don't have anything nice to say
animosity, twit, fury, scorn, intrusive, abomination, affront, aggressive, antisocial, apalling, armada, avaricious and 85 more...
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Cringe List
No. Just no.
"Slang, though humanly irreverent, tends to be inhumanly loveless. It lacks tenderness and compassion; its poetry has the effulgence of a soldier's brass buttons."
...woot, w00t, anyways, whatever, totes, booyah, sick, ill, nom, anyhoo, frickin', jeebus and 81 more...
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tinyfossil's Words
tactile, antipode, velveteen, smoot, anachronistic, gammon, potjie, fizgig, fizzgig, polymorphism, penultimate, mellifluous and 1 more...
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arynzmuse's Words
cacaphony, jealously, aerie, substrate, sedimentology, planetarium, aqueous, sororal, feminine, quidditch, muggle, uniformitarianism and 53 more...
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Random Favorite Words
Just random favorite words of mine.
comme ci, comme ça, frell, frack, mu*, history repeats i..., electile dysfunction, ombibulous, forked tongue
Tweets
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lampbane More Frak Than You Could Ever Want (io9, May 16, 2008):
It's the censorship-evading word that stands as proof at how involved Battlestar Galactica has become in modern popular culture.
Frak used to be much more polite: According to the Battlestar Wiki, "Frack" - the official spelling of the word for the original 1970s version of the show, according to the Writer's Guide - didn't always mean "fuck":
"Frack" is a Colonial expletive, roughly analagous to "shit" or even the milder "rats" or "darn" of the Original Series. May 16, 2008