"LARP" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈlɑːp/ [UK], /ˈlɑɹp/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-LARP.wav [Southern-England] Forms: LARPs [plural]
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)p Head templates: {{en-noun}} LARP (plural LARPs)
  1. (games) Acronym of live-action roleplaying. Tags: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of Alternative form of: live-action roleplaying Categories (topical): Games Translations (live-action role-play): larppi (Finnish), elopeli (Finnish), live-roolipeli (Finnish), näytelmäroolipeli (Finnish), jeu de rôle grandeur nature (French), jeu de rôle semi-réel (French), laiv [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), laiv [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), lajv [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-LARP-en-noun-Go2~UDj4 Categories (other): English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 54 41 4 Topics: games

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈlɑːp/ [UK], /ˈlɑɹp/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-LARP.wav [Southern-England] Forms: LARPs [present, singular, third-person], LARPing [participle, present], LARPed [participle, past], LARPed [past]
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)p Head templates: {{en-verb}} LARP (third-person singular simple present LARPs, present participle LARPing, simple past and past participle LARPed)
  1. (games) Acronym of live-action roleplay. Tags: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of Alternative form of: live-action roleplay Categories (topical): Games Synonyms: larp Derived forms: LARPer, parlour LARP Related terms: role-play, role-playing, role-playing game, RPG Translations (to engage in live-action role-play): larpata (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-LARP-en-verb-YUh4zRV1 Categories (other): English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks Topics: games Disambiguation of 'to engage in live-action role-play': 86 14
  2. (slang, by extension) To pretend to be something, or act as something. Tags: broadly, slang Translations (to pretend to be something or act as something): cos (Chinese Mandarin)
    Sense id: en-LARP-en-verb-rNUA1OID Disambiguation of 'to pretend to be something or act as something': 1 99

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.