Frak (expletive)
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 as a profanity in science fiction.
Some companies have adopted it as the name for commercial products. It has also appeared in other television shows, including Eureka, The Big Bang Theory, Chuck and Bones to name a few. It was used in the 2012 video game Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, whilst Robot Chicken had a sketch on its "Rabbits on a Roller Coaster" episode parodying the reimagined 2004-Battlestar Galactica and its use of frak.
Etymology[edit]
"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]
Other uses[edit]
"Frak!" was the title of a game released on the BBC Micro B and Acorn Electron in 1984, and later the Commodore 64. The game saw the user controlling a caveman called Trogg, who had to navigate maze-like scenarios and dispose of deadly obstacles; when coming into contact with such an obstacle or falling a substantial distance, Trogg would cry "Frak!"
"Frak" is used in the same sense as in Battlestar by characters in the early 21st century "Ciaphas Cain" series of Games Workshop Warhammer 40,000 novels by Sandy Mitchell.[2]
A campaign in the United Kingdom aimed at banning hydraulic fracturing, the controversial method of shale gas extraction known as fracking, have organised themselves under the name Frack Off.
References[edit]
- ↑ Talbott, Chris (October 1, 2012). "What the `frak'? Faux curse seeping into language". Associated Press.
- ↑ Mitchell, Sandy (2003). For the Emperor (extract) (PDF). Black Library. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-84416-050-1. OCLC 52946642. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 18, 2006. Search this book on
- Tranter, Kieran (Spring 2007). "Frakking Toasters and Jurisprudences of Technology". Law and Literature (hosted at JSTOR)
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