Frak (expletive)

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Frack or frak is a bowdlerised version of fuck first used in the original Battlestar Galactica series. In the "re-imagined" version it appears with greater frequency and with the revised spelling "frak", as the producers wanted to make it a four-letter word. In that framework it seems to function as a substitute for "fuck" in several different forms, as an interjection ("Frak!"), inquisitive idiom ("What the frak?"), verb ("You're not still frakking Dualla are you?"), adjective ("Get your motherfrakking hands off me!"), a noun ("You miserable frak") or in words ("What a clusterfrak.").

Fräck (spelled with the umlaut ä) is also the product name of a shaving mirror produced by IKEA, a multinational home products retailer.^[1] Since most IKEA product names are in Swedish, fräck is the Swedish word for audacious, shameless or bold (while frack, without ä, would translate to tailcoat). In the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series, a mirror of this type is installed in the cabin of William Adama.^[2]

The word has recently been referenced numerous times in popular culture including in Dilbert, Veronica Mars, Gilmore Girls, Robot Chicken, Scrubs, the English dub of Crayon Shin Chan, The OC and in Marvel Comics' World War Hulk: Prologue. Star Wars uses this word, but not often [1].

[edit] References

• Frak at the Battlestar Wiki
• "Frakking Toasters" and Jurisprudences of Technology, by Kieran Tranter, Law and Literature, Spring 2007, Vol. 19, No. 1, Pages 45-7d

[edit] See also

• Phrack

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