Skip to content
OneKitly

frat

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • //fɹæt//

Shortened form of fraternity, college organization.

noun

  1. 1

    Shortened form of fraternity, college organization.

    frat party

    See you at the frat house.

    All the frats will be there.

    "But the cultural conflict between these two post-revolutionary styles — between frat guys and feminist bluestockings, Gamergaters and the diversity police, alt-right provocateurs and 'woke' dudebros, the mouthbreathers who poured hate on the all-female 'Ghostbusters' and the tastemakers who pretended it was good — is likely here to stay."

Etymology

Apocopic form of fraternity etc.

verb

  1. 1

    slangTo fraternize.

    […] "fratting" (fraternising) a bit with the frauleins, who were apparently not at all reluctant to be "fratted" with.

Forms

plural
frats
past tense
fratted
past participle
fratted
present participle
fratting
third person singular
frats
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).