non-fratn.1adj.
/nɒnˈfrat/, U.S. /ˈnɑnˈfræt/ U.S. College slang.
A. n.1
A college student who is not a member of a fraternity.
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1912 K. P. Battle Hist. Univ. N. Carolina II. vii. 470 Dissatisfaction..seems to have become acute when it was alleged that a Frat counseled young ladies to refuse to receive the attention of a non-Frat, because they would thus drive off those of the other party.
1933 J. H. Morgan Dickinson College 334 Their fellow non-fraternity men of the Union Philosophical Society would hold a hastily called meeting..and admit the resigned Belles Lettres non-frats to the Union Society.
1939 J. Daniels Tar Heel Editor xxvi. 242 Years afterward, so tradition goes, the non-Frats licked the Frats in some contest, the non-Frats being led by an able youngster, Walter Stacy, who was to become Chief Justice of the State.
1996 W. E. Campbell Across Fortune's Tracks iii. 60 By the time Kenan joined the Gim Ghouls, their electoral successes had combined with the political upheaval engulfing North Carolina to raise the tension between ‘Frats’ and ‘Non-Frats’ on campus to the breaking point.
1996 W. E. Campbell Across Fortune's Tracks iii. 61 As former UNC president Kemp Battle later explained, the situation became ‘acute when it was alleged that a Frat counseled young ladies to refuse to receive the attentions of a nonFrat, because they would thus drive off those of the other party’.
B. adj.
Of a college student or alumnus: not a member of a college fraternity. Also: relating to or characteristic of such people.
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1939 I. M. Tarbell All in Day's Work 47 There were a few months..when, if it had not been for two or three non-Frat friends, I should have been a social outcast.
1949 J. A. Kelley College Life & Mores iv. 120 ‘The Phi Mu's are lowering their reputation by attending “non-frat” dances’—such identifications as these can show the top of the hierarchy on a campus.
1963 E. A. Williams et al. Remember Me to Tom 53 A non-frat man is practically ‘out of it’ in Columbia.
1996 Violence against Women 2 138 The independent variables for this investigation were: (a) a 2-value categorical variable indicating fraternity membership (yes or no); (b) type of housing (fraternity house, mixed-gender housing, nonfrat all-male housing).
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non-fratn.2
/nɒnˈfrat/, U.S. /ˈnɑnˈfræt/ Military slang. Now rare.
= non-fraternization n.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [noun]
incommunicableness1643
non-communion1648
non-intercourse1794
unsocialism1849
unsociality1852
non-fraternizationc1870
non-frat1945
social deprivation1958
1945 Manch. Guardian 18 July 6/4 (caption) Frat or Non-frat.
1957 Wiener Beiträge 65 280 Soldiers abbreviated the long words fraternisation and non-fraternisation to frat and non-frat.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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