The dictionary definition of the word frag is: 'US military slang, to kill or wound (a fellow soldier or superior officer) deliberately with an explosive device (short for fragmentation grenade as used in Vietnam)'.

'Gib is a shortening of giblet, which is actually the heart, liver, gizzard and neck of a fowl but is commonly applied to the insides of any living creature'.

And their relevance to videogames? They're both the terms used when you've scored a kill in, originally Doom, but now any multiplayer - particularly online - game. Scoring a frag simply involves killing someone else, whereas the more spectacular gib involves not only killing them, but killing them messily - hopefully so their insides are on show for all the other players that are running around like headless chickens.

Naturally, gibbing someone carries a lot more kudos than your common-or-garden frag, but either one will do when you're in a deathmatch and you can bet your bottom dollar you'll be the victim of both of them - unless you're a member of the Future Gamer Clan of course (cough).

Future Gamer are campaigning for the introduction of the word anabiosis to deathmatch games (it means to return to life after apparent death) whereby a re-incarnated player has just 'anabioed' themselves. Let's see if it takes off, eh?