to frack
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9.9
- verb
- /fræk/
- Offensive
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joder
- The comedian used humor to frack the tension in the room, making everyone laugh.
Examples
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What if we developed to frack without chemicals?
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Frack, break unions, and so on.
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"This is the world's richest industry, and they're doing all they can to buy off politicians in order to frack our communities, but this event shows that the entire world is ready to stand up to stop them."
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( Cheering ) When I talked to, I think, a lot of you in Philadelphia about two months ago, and I said, if they come forward with regulations to frack the Delaware, we are going to shut them down... remember that?
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"I mean, you're committing yourself to centuries of water treatment," Fox says of the decision to frack—environmentalists say the practice can lead to the contamination of groundwater.
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"Big oil's plan to frack the world will keep us addicted to fossil fuels at a critical moment when we need to immediately transition to clean, safe, renewable energy," concluded Duncan Meisel, anti-fracking campaigner at 350.org.
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This political debate is getting intense; stop trying to frack my opinions.
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She felt that constant criticism would only frack her confidence further.
Synonyms
1
8.5
To kill an opponent in a video game
1
9.0
To hit someone or something hard, often by accident
To attack and badly damage something
To ruin something completely by making serious mistakes
Phrasal Verbs
- Specialized
To get natural gas from under the ground by forcing water and chemicals into rocks
How Violent
Surface Forms
Etymology
Frack used as a verb meaning to attack or damage comes from using the word as a softer form of 'fuck' or 'fuck up'. So to 'frack' someone is to hurt or damage them, said as a less harsh way to threaten or describe harm.