Frack

//fɹæk// adj, verb, slang

adj, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To employ hydraulic fracturing (fracking). ambitransitive

    "Mrs. Crawley recalled driving past the Riverdale Mobile Home Park, whose residents were being forced out to make way for a facility that would withdraw water from the river to frack gas wells, in the summer of 2012 and seeing a bunch of “picketers” from “out of the area that just came in and camped up there” as part of what supporters called Occupy Riverdale."

  2. 2
    Fuck. euphemistic, slang

    "Frack! The impact must have twisted the bulkhead just enough to jam the door."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Alternative form of freck. alt-of, alternative

Example

More examples

"Mrs. Crawley recalled driving past the Riverdale Mobile Home Park, whose residents were being forced out to make way for a facility that would withdraw water from the river to frack gas wells, in the summer of 2012 and seeing a bunch of “picketers” from “out of the area that just came in and camped up there” as part of what supporters called Occupy Riverdale."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From an abbreviated form of fracture. Also found in English hydrofracking.

Etymology 2

Original and alternative spelling for English frak. See frak.

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