'frack' or 'frak' is a bowdlerised version of "f**k" first used in the original Battlestar Galactica series.With today's economy, more and more businesses, their employees, shareholders, suppliers, and customers, are frakked.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 "f**k" 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.").