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Frak or frack is a fictional version of "fuck" first used in the 1978 Battlestar Galactica television series. It continues to be used throughout different versions of the Battlestar Galactica franchise and, more generally, as a profanity in science fiction.
Etymology
"Frak" is a fictional censored version of "fuck" first used in the 1978 Battlestar Galactica series (with the spelling "frack"). In the "re-imagined" version, and subsequently in Caprica, it appears with greater frequency and with the revised spelling "frak", as the producers wanted to make it a four-letter word.[1] It occurs as an expletive and in expressions such as "fraks things up good" and "frakking toasters".[2]
References
- ^ Talbott, Chris (September 2, 2008). "What the 'frak'? Faux curse seeping into language". Associated Press.
- ^ Tranter, Kieran (Spring 2007). "Frakking Toasters and Jurisprudences of Technology" (PDF). Law and Literature. 19 (1): 45–7d. doi:10.1525/lal.2007.19.1.45. hdl:10072/19459. JSTOR 10.1525/lal.2007.19.1.45. S2CID 142863781.
External links
Look up frak in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- Frak at the Battlestar Wiki