Word suggestion: fracked

[Morbius]

Frack appeared in yesterdays standard puzzle as a rare word.  I also tried fracked but it was rejected.  Frack is a verb (referring to the process of hydraulic fracturing) and is acknowledged as such in most dictionaries, so fracked should also be acknowledged as a legitimate word.  I'm not sure if fracking is currently allowed in Chi, but if not, I'd suggest it should be. 

[mkenuk]

re the recent backfired game.

frack was allowed (as uncommon) but not the past tense fracked.

This is a word that has been in the news in UK a lot recently, largely due to reports of protests against the practice, where large quantities of liquid are forced into the earth at very high pressure in order to break up the rocks below.
It's been called 'literally the rape of Mother Earth'.

Politics aside, I think all forms of the verb (which are shown in Wiktionary) should be included in Chi

[mkenuk]

We seem to have posted near-identical suggestions at the same time, Dr Morbius.
I think Alan will probably combine them.

[Morbius]

Clearly a case of great minds thinking alike.  

[mkenuk]

Indeed!!

[yelnats]

I tried both frack and fracked and meant to ask about fracked not being accepted, but two great minds beat me to it.

[Alan W]

We do already accept fracking, as well as frack.

I suspect this is nothing to do with hydraulic fracturing. The use of the word frack and its inflections seemed to burst onto the scene in 2010, although I did spot an them in a September 2000 article in Forbes magazine: "Snape's idea is to frack wells with sound waves at 40 to 100 hertz... Snape says he has lined up an oil company to test the fracking application of the device."

The online Oxford has other meanings for frack:

US informal
    Used to express annoyance, frustration, impatience, or surprise.
    ‘what the frack is going on!’

and fracking:

US informal
    Used for emphasis or to express annoyance, frustration, impatience, or surprise.
    ‘are you out of your fracking mind?’

In the fracturing sense, fracked is certainly used, so I'll add it to our word list. I'll leave all these words as rare for now.

[birdy]

Fracking and the other forms of the word are much in the news here in the USA these days. I'm not sure how much longer they will be rare.

[cmh]

They have been  commonly used on news  reports in the North of England too for the last few years. There are a lot of unhappy people fighting to make it a far less commonly used word!

[mkenuk]

I really don't think it can be too long before this word is  classed as common. It's in the UK newspapers - the serious ones, that is - most days.

The combination of letters - /f/r/c/k/ - probably means that it won't appear in Chi very often, however.