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FRAT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does frat mean?
• FRAT (noun)
The noun FRAT has 1 sense:
1. a social club for male undergraduates
Familiarity information: FRAT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A social club for male undergraduates
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
frat; fraternity
Hypernyms ("frat" is a kind of...):
club; gild; guild; lodge; order; social club; society (a formal association of people with similar interests)
Meronyms (members of "frat"):
chapter (a local branch of some fraternity or association)
Context examples
Ruth sat near him in the stern, while the three young fellows lounged amidships, deep in a wordy wrangle over "frat" affairs.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Sometimes, too, when he frightens me, it seems that he is a bulldog I have taken for a plaything, like some of the 'frat' girls, and he is tugging hard, and showing his teeth, and threatening to break loose.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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