Frack
adj, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 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 Fuck. euphemistic, slang
"Frack! The impact must have twisted the bulkhead just enough to jam the door."
- 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
From an abbreviated form of fracture. Also found in English hydrofracking.
Original and alternative spelling for English frak. See frak.
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