Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A college fraternity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a social club for male college undergraduates; a shortened form of fraternity.

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  • noun Shortened form for fraternity, college organization. (Often used as a noun modifier.)

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  • noun a social club for male undergraduates

Etymologies

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Apocope of fraternity.

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Examples

  • Do these politicians get hazed and have to go thru initiation also ... cause it seems like the do a lot of "my frat is bigger and better then your frat" and party more then they do representing their people and districts.

    Florida Republicans demand refunds from Crist 2010

  • In January they all moved into a newly renovated house on Long Island -- a place I call the frat house.

    Barbara Fischkin: A Miracle Group Home For My Adult Son With Autism Barbara Fischkin 2010

  • I kept thinking of a certain frat boy invader when I read it ....

    BROAD CAST, 8 OCTOBER 2007 Maggie Jochild 2007

  • The social-networking site Late Night Shots is sometimes described as a frat party in cyberspace, populated by attractive 20-somethings who socialize in Georgetown and gossip about each other in LNS's anonymous chat forums.

    Home/News 2010

  • They don't even apologize for torture which they enabled and first described as a frat party and today defend as a necessary method to protect the homeland.

    Wingnut Murder Spree or Are WE Part of the Problem? 2009

  • The thing is, people think that if there was no actual rape then there was nothing wrong with the overall pictures - bunch of entitled frat boys hire poor black women largely so that they can lord it over them in a racist manner, which intent they demonstrate quite clearly by their behavior.

    How Innocent Are They? Or, Hearing of Don Imus and the Duke Lacrosse Dropped Charges All in One Day Anxious Black Woman 2007

  • She's what the boys call a frat ho, and the Secret Service allegedly had to clean up behind her partying ways.

    Archive 2004-07-01 2004

  • I saw it plastered across the face of every entitled frat boy who already knew his way was paved.

    The Republic of T. 2009

  • Linda: How about posting nutritional information online for the University run dining ... eric: Do you farmers seriously have nothing better to do than claim your frat is the ...

    The Daily O'Collegian 2009

  • Linda: How about posting nutritional information online for the University run dining ... eric: Do you farmers seriously have nothing better to do than claim your frat is the ...

    The Daily O'Collegian 2009

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