Frantic

The first track of heavy metal band Metallica's eighth studio album, "St. Anger". The song's lyrics deal with personal struggle and addiction, as well as the Buddhist principle of dukkha.

This song is particularly notable for its chorus, in which singer James Hetfield growls the word "Frantic", followed by repeating the syllable "tic" six times per line, finishing with the utterance of "tock", mimicking the sound of a ticking clock.

This chorus has been recognized by online communities for its repetitiveness, and has been the subject of several edited videos in which Hetfield repeats the "tic" syllable indefinitely, similar to "the best," a meme built off of "Best of You" by the Foo Fighters. This is unofficially known as the "Frantic Roll."

"FRANTIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC-TIC"

by El Chocho April 11, 2010

Frenetic

Frenetic:

fast and energetic in a rather wild and uncontrolled way

Frenetic:

Not based on a particular person.

by _The Secret_ February 25, 2020

franticky

Franticky is a combination of FRANTIC + PANICKY. It describes a situation in which a person is in a desperate hurry to do something, escape from a situation, etc., but whose efforts don't work because the panicked nature of his/her mood makes focus and resolve impossible.

"June, the phone bill is right here under your nose. You'd have found if if you hadn't been blindly riffling through the papers, all franticky."

by al-in-chgo March 5, 2010

frenting

when a life changing obstacle comes between two people in a relationship that causes them to break up and become friends even though they wish they were dating

Joe and Jane are dating. Jane has to move out of state. They try to make it work but they can't pull it off. Even though they love each other,they are forced to become friends. Joe and Jane are now frenting.

by erikatori June 18, 2008

franticipation

the act of waiting frantically with a mixture of frustration and anticipation for your computer to download/load the application/software you await with excitement

I sat, with growing franticipation, as my computer's timer ticked away.

by abulafia July 10, 2010

Frantic Research

Used in a student setting: Response you would give to someone knocking on the door while you are in the middle of masturbating.

knock knock knock
Person 1: What are you doing in there?
Person 2: Uuuhhh ugghh errr....nothing dude.....just doing some frantic research!

by thephantomwang December 1, 2010

Franticy

Franticy (soft "c"); 2010, A. Pierce: The state of frantically making up limiting stories (one could call them fantasies) that serve the separation story of fear and chaos rather than the unity story of Oneness.

From my www.inspiritualwonder.us blog post: "Franticy has been my sidekick for many, many moons. If it’s true that peace has been declared, then franticy has been transmuted, has been burned away."

To live in franticy is to create many too-small stories that lead to unnecessary suffering and keep us from embracing the Ultimate Reality, which is Oneness. Franticy, then, is a result of our rootedness in the mass consciousness belief in separation rather than unity.

I choose to live more in the realm of peace, of universal love than in the realm of “franticy.”

by InSpiritualWonder December 2, 2010