Citations:frat
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English citations of frat
(military, slang) Fratricide; friendly fire
[edit]- [2003, Bill Katovsky, William Katovsky, Timothy Carlson, Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq, Globe Pequot
- I was not present when Americans died at the hands of fellow soldiers in what the military calls "frat," for fratricide. I had no idea what ordinary Iraqis were experiencing.]
- 2007, Jonathan Dowty, Christian Fighter Pilot Is Not an Oxymoron, Jonathan Dowty (→ISBN), page 24:
- [If he] drops a simulated bomb on a friendly ground position, he is required to buy a keg as punishment for the fratricide or frat. (This is in addition to the humiliation of the debrief, as fighter pilots consider frat the gravest of sins.)