Frog (disambiguation)

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Frog may mean:

• Frog, an amphibian
• Frogs (song) by Alternative Metal group Alice in Chains
• Frog (fastening), an ornamental braiding, or a specific style called a Chinese frog
• Frog (bicycle), a folding bicycle
• Frog (pejorative), a French person
• Frog (colloquial), a painful blow to a muscular area of the body, particularly the upper arm or thigh, with the hard knuckle of the hand. This type of conduct was popular among young boys especially in the 1970's. i.e. "Mom, he 'frogged' me!"
• Frogman, a scuba diver.
• frog design, a "creative consultancy"

Main article: Frogs in popular culture

• Frogs (film), a 1972 film directed by George McCowan
• Frog (Chrono Trigger), a playable character in Chrono Trigger
• Frogger, a video game
• The Frogs, a comedy play by Aristophanes
• The Frogs (musical), Stephen Sondheim's musical adaptation of Aristophanes play
• The Frogs (band), a rock band
• The Frog Prince, a fairy tale
• The Frog Princess, a fairy tale
• Freddo Frog, a confectionery popular in Australia
• Crazy Frog, a ringtone company and parody band
• Frog (models), a former brand of model aircraft and scale model kits in Britain
• Frog+, an album by Merzbow
• Frog Records, a record label

Frog may also be:

• A flat metal base with closely-ranged spikes to hold flower stems in a flower arrangement
• The end of the bow of a stringed instrument that includes the nut - the mechanism which alters the tautness of the hairs
• A (chiefly English) derogatory term for a French person (derived for the supposed French affinity for eating frog legs)
• A bullfighter's jacket
• In railways, the means of passing one running rail through another, with flangeway
• A part of the hoof of a horse, that assists in the circulation of blood
• An indentation in one of the bed faces of a brick, usually the top
• A rock club night, held in London, UK, every Saturday at the Mean Fiddler
• That part of a metal wood working bench plane (tool) which supports the blade assembly
• Michigan J. Frog, Warner Brothers cartoon character and The WB television network's mascot.

FROG may stand for:

• Free Range On Grid, a driverless car technology from the Netherlands
• An acronym for "Free Rocket Over Ground", used as a NATO reporting name to designate a series of (former Soviet Union) rocket artillery - most notably FROG-7.
• Frequency-resolved optical gating, a method used to measure ultrashort optical pulses
• a block cipher algorithm
• the Christian phrase "Fully rely on God" (similar to "WWJD")

FROGS may stand for:

• Full Range Oxygen Gas System, an oxygen rebreather currently used in France