pickle

pickle (countable and uncountable, plural pickles)

→ Dutch: pickles

→ French: pickles

→ Irish: picil

→ Korean: 피클 (pikeul)

→ Portuguese: picles

→ Spanish: pickles, picle

→ Welsh: picil

From Middle English pikel (“spicy sauce served with meat or fish”), borrowed from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German pekel (“brine”). Cognate with Scots pikkill (“salt liquor, brine”), Saterland Frisian Piekele (“pickle, brine”), Dutch pekel (“pickle, brine”), Low German pekel, peckel, pickel, bickel (“pickle, brine”), German Pökel (“pickle, brine”).

cog

Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.


girning

(Northern England) A light-hearted competition in which people girn (make elaborate faces) through a horse collar; most popular in rural parts of England.


niquer

From faire la nique, nique + -er (verb suffix).

(obsolete, dice games) to obtain what was announced on the first throw


banda

bandák (plural)
banda (nominative singular)
bandák (nominative plural)
bandát (accusative singular)
bandákat (accusative plural)
bandának (dative singular)
bandáknak (dative plural)
bandával (instrumental singular)
bandákkal (instrumental plural)
bandáért (causal-final singular)
bandákért (causal-final plural)
bandává (singular translative)
bandákká (plural translative)
bandáig (singular terminative)
bandákig (plural terminative)
bandaként (essive-formal singular)
bandákként (essive-formal plural)
bandában (inessive singular)
bandákban (inessive plural)
bandán (singular superessive)
bandákon (plural superessive)
bandánál (adessive singular)
bandáknál (adessive plural)
bandába (illative singular)
bandákba (illative plural)
bandára (singular sublative)
bandákra (plural sublative)
bandához (allative singular)
bandákhoz (allative plural)
bandából (elative singular)
bandákból (elative plural)
bandáról (delative singular)
bandákról (delative plural)
bandától (ablative singular)
bandáktól (ablative plural)
bandáé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
bandáké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
bandáéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
bandákéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
bandám (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
bandáim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
bandád (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
bandáid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
bandája (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
bandái (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
bandánk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
bandáink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
bandátok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
bandáitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
bandájuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
bandáik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

First attested in 1787. Borrowed from Italian banda (“group”). Perhaps via German Bande.

(card games) four cards of the same suit (in ferbli)


proxy

(Make sure you don't move!! Might trigger a proxy..!)

2001, "TripleRaid", Perfect Dark: Glitch FAQ http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/n64/file/198275/7974

the only means the Protectors have of delaying is by laying mines and Sentry Guns, and the Runners can only use the Magnums to blow up Proxies and Sentries.

2001, "CyricZ", Perfect Dark: FAQ/Walkthrough http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/n64/file/198275/8052

Usually, the only reason I play in Yoshi's Island is to have fun with the clouds - put proxies on them, taunt from them, whatever.

2002, "yc", Super Smash Bros.: Kirby http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/n64/file/198854/9449

You can also walk with your gun out, as this will limit your speed, allowing you do evade the proxies.

2006, "eatyourmumshead", Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory: Online Mode FAQ http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/924556/43994

(video games slang) Short for proximity mine.


make good

en-verb

make good (third-person singular simple present makes good, present participle making good, simple past and past participle made good)

makes good (present singular third-person)
making good (participle present)
made good (participle past)
made good (past)

After all the players who determine to go in have made good the bet of the player who opened the Jack Pot, and the hands have been filled […]

1885, William Brisbane Dick, The American Hoyle: Or, Gentleman's Hand-book of Games:

(gambling) To match the first player's bet with one's own, rather than dropping out.


jackpot

Attested as jack-pot (“big prize”), 1944; from sense "slot machine" (1932), from obsolete poker sense (1881) "antes that begin when no player has a pair of jacks or better"; from jack (“playing card”) + pot.

(pinball) A large accumulated point bonus, originally awarded after a long set of actions but now often easily available in multiball modes.


jackpot

As a little girl, I was something of a tomboy. I played jackpot in the mud at recess, and my Christmas wish lists consisted of baseball mitts and remote controlled cars.

2019 February 6, Amanda Zhang, “Amanda Zhang: There's no shame in liking "Twilight"”, in The Michigan Daily, Ann Arbor, M.I.: University of Michigan, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-20:

(playground games) A ball game in which a thrower calls out a point value and whether the ball must be caught "alive" (in the air) or "dead" (having touched the ground), and a group of catchers compete to catch the ball.


pont

pontok (plural)
pont (nominative singular)
pontok (nominative plural)
pontot (accusative singular)
pontokat (accusative plural)
pontnak (dative singular)
pontoknak (dative plural)
ponttal (instrumental singular)
pontokkal (instrumental plural)
pontért (causal-final singular)
pontokért (causal-final plural)
ponttá (singular translative)
pontokká (plural translative)
pontig (singular terminative)
pontokig (plural terminative)
pontként (essive-formal singular)
pontokként (essive-formal plural)
pontban (inessive singular)
pontokban (inessive plural)
ponton (singular superessive)
pontokon (plural superessive)
pontnál (adessive singular)
pontoknál (adessive plural)
pontba (illative singular)
pontokba (illative plural)
pontra (singular sublative)
pontokra (plural sublative)
ponthoz (allative singular)
pontokhoz (allative plural)
pontból (elative singular)
pontokból (elative plural)
pontról (delative singular)
pontokról (delative plural)
ponttól (ablative singular)
pontoktól (ablative plural)
ponté (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
pontoké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
pontéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
pontokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
pontom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
pontjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
pontod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
pontjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
pontja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
pontjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
pontunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
pontjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
pontotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
pontjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
pontjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
pontjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

Borrowed from German Punkt, from Latin punctum.

(sports, video games, board games) point (a unit of scoring in a game or competition)

(games) pip (one of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.)


ĉevalo

eo-head

ĉevalo (accusative singular ĉevalon, plural ĉevaloj, accusative plural ĉevalojn)

ĉevalon (accusative singular)
ĉevaloj (plural)
ĉevalojn (accusative plural)


rig

From Greek ρήγας (rígas), cognate with the also borrowed Romanian rigă. Ultimately from Latin rex, thus forming a doublet of regj.

(rare, card games) king in a pack of playing cards


pone

(card games, chiefly US) The last player to bet or play in turn.


butcher

→ Hindi: बूचड़ (būcaṛ)

→ Swahili: bucha

→ Urdu: بُوچَڑ (būcaṛ)

From Middle English bocher, boucher, from Old French bouchier (“goat slaughterer”), from Old French bouc (“goat”), from Medieval Latin buccus (“he-goat”), of Germanic origin. More at English buck.

der

Coordinate term: bitch

(colloquial, archaic, card games) A king playing card.


quartiere

Borrowed from French quartier, from Latin quartārium (“fourth part”).


craps

From Louisiana Creole craps, a corruption of English crabs.

“As an inventor,” Bob Mason suggested, “you're a howling success at shooting craps ! If I were as free of spavins, ringbone, saddle-galls, and splints as you are, I'd have that nanny-goat in here, hog-tie her, flop her and let the boy help himself. […]”

1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter XII, in The Understanding Heart:

Start off the dice-rollin' mats for craps to cee-lo / With side-bets, I roll a deuce, nothin' below

1994, “Memory Lane (Sittin’ in da Park)”, in Illmatic, performed by Nas:

(gambling, dice games) A game of gambling, or chance, where the players throw dice to make scores and avoid crap.


kings

(poker slang) A pair of kings (playing cards).


kings

(card games) A drinking game that uses playing cards.


post

en-verb

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)

posts (present singular third-person)
posting (participle present)
posted (participle past)
posted (past)

Chinese: po

Inherited from Old English post (“pillar, door-post”) and Latin postis (“a post, a door-post”) through Old French. .

inh+

Since Jim was new to the game, he had to post $4 in order to receive a hand.

(transitive) To deposit a payment that may or may not be returned.


aso

eo-head

aso (accusative singular ason, plural asoj, accusative plural asojn)

ason (accusative singular)
asoj (plural)
asojn (accusative plural)

From French as, Italian asso, German Ass, English ace.

la pika aso

(games) a die or half of a domino with one pip in play


transpose

en-verb

transpose (third-person singular simple present transposes, present participle transposing, simple past and past participle transposed)

transposes (present singular third-person)
transposing (participle present)
transposed (participle past)
transposed (past)

From Middle English transposen, from Old French transposer, from Latin trānspositus, perfect passive participle of trānspōnō (“to put across”), from trāns (“across”) + pōnō (“to put”).

After e6, the opening transposed to a Sicilian.

(intransitive, chess) To reach a position that may also be obtained from a different move order.


forcing

(bridge) Pertaining to a bid which requires partner to continue bidding rather than pass.


denaro

From Latin dēnārius, via a non-Tuscan dialect where Latin /rj/ yields /r/.


Back-formation from any% or low%, in which the “%” was a literal indicator of the percentage completion the player would achieve in order to qualify for the given leaderboard category.
The suffix was then broadened to form category names in general, where the suffixed term specified some condition about the category, e.g. what score must be obtained, items used, etc., in order to qualify.

100% ― 100% of the game must be completed

any% ― any percentage completion is permitted

low% ― the lowest possible completion is required

(speedrunning) Suffix forming speedrunning categories requiring a given percentage to qualify.

P% ― requiring a “P” rank in order to qualify

Gears% ― gear items are allowed as part of the run (whereas in the main category runs they would not be)

(speedrunning) Suffix forming speedrunning categories related to the suffixed element, or subject to constraints based on it.


backport

backport (third-person singular simple present backports, present participle backporting, simple past and past participle backported)

backports (present singular third-person)
backporting (participle present)
backported (participle past)
backported (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-backport.wav

(also video games) To re-release software on its original or a previous platform with new features, after its release on a different platform.


promote

promote (third-person singular simple present promotes, present participle promoting, simple past and past participle promoted)

promotes (present singular third-person)
promoting (participle present)
promoted (participle past)
promoted (past)

From Latin prōmōtus, perfect passive participle of prōmoveō (“move forward, advance”).

Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.

(transitive, chess) To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.

umwandeln

replace a pawn by a different chess piece


gin

en-noun

gin (countable and uncountable, plural gins)

Abbreviation of geneva, alteration of Dutch genever (“juniper”) from Old French genevre (modern French genièvre), from Vulgar Latin ziniperus, from Latin iūniperus (“juniper”). Hence gin rummy (first attested 1941).

Johnny Chan held jack-nine, and hit gin when a queen-ten-eight board was dealt out.

(poker) Drawing the best card or combination of cards.


Boston

→ Abenaki: Pastonki, pastoni

→ Klamath-Modoc: basdin

→ Lushootseed: pastəd

→ Mohawk: Wáhston

The US city is named after the English town (from which several prominent colonists had come), which itself is sometimes said to be named as a contraction of Botolph's town or Botolph's stone (the name Botolph itself coming from Old English Botwulf, from boda + wulf). However, this is uncertain.

(card games) An eighteenth-century trick-taking card game for four players, with two packs of fifty-two cards each.


Boston

(card games) In the card game spades, a bid of all 13 tricks.


bubo

eo-head

bubo (accusative singular bubon, plural buboj, accusative plural bubojn)

bubon (accusative singular)
buboj (plural)
bubojn (accusative plural)

urchin, waif, kid (living on street), gamin


slough

en-verb

slough (third-person singular simple present sloughs, present participle sloughing, simple past and past participle sloughed)

sloughs (present singular third-person)
sloughing (participle present)
sloughed (participle past)
sloughed (past)

From Middle English slogh, slugh, slouh, from Proto-Germanic *sluk-, perhaps related to *sleupaną (“to slip, sneak”) (compare Gothic 𐍃𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍀𐌰𐌽 (sliupan)).
Akin to Middle Low German slô (“sheath, skin on a hoof”). Perhaps also related with Old Saxon slūk (“snakeskin”), Middle High German slūch, whence German Schlauch (“waterskin, hose”).

cog

East sloughed a heart.


standing

in bato lata; an instance where the can is standing upright and, still in play, after being hit and pushed out of its ring


genocide

en-noun

genocide (countable and uncountable, plural genocides)

Armenian genocide
Terminology of the Armenian genocide
The Holocaust
genocide

Coined by lawyer of Polish-Jewish descent Raphael Lemkin in 1943 or 1944 in reference to the Armenian Genocide (then known by other names; see: Terminology of the Armenian genocide) and the Jewish Holocaust. From the stem of Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “race, kind”) (cognate with Latin gēns (“tribe, clan”), whence genus) + -cide (“killing, killer”). Doublet of gendercide. Compare genticide.

der

I used genocide in my first ascension, but have been genocideless ever since. Makes the game much more interesting, but then again, if one hasn't ascended yet, it will be interesting anyway.

2000, Kimmo Kasila, “Arch lich at Minetown bones, Help!”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):

(video games, roguelikes) The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player.


conkers

(British, games) A game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a "conker") suspended from a length of string, and take turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed.


intrinsic

From Middle French intrinsèque, from Latin intrīnsecus (“on the inside, inwardly”), from *intrim, an assumed adverbial form of inter (“within”) + secus (“by, on the side”).

You can acquire the fire-resistance intrinsic by eating dragon meat.

(video games) An ability possessed by a character and not requiring any external equipment.


liberty

en-noun

liberty (countable and uncountable, plural liberties)

From Middle English liberte, from Old French liberté, from Latin libertas (“freedom”), from liber (“free”); see liberal.

(go) An empty space next to a group of stones of the same color.


grand slam

(bridge) The bid and winning of all the tricks during the play of one hand.

grand chelem

(bridge) the winning of all the tricks during the play of one hand


conversion

conversion (countable and uncountable, plural conversions)

From Middle English conversion, conversioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conversion, from Latin conversiō, from convertō.

обръщане

the act of having converted something or someone

המרת דת

to replace one religious faith with another

(rugby) A free kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.

(American football) An extra point (or two) scored by kicking a field goal or carrying the ball into the end zone after scoring a touchdown.

(obsolete) The act of turning round; revolution; rotation.

(slang, board games) Changing a miniature figure into another character, usually by mixing different parts, or molding the model's parts, or doing both.


territory

territory (countable and uncountable, plural territories)

/ˈtɛɹɪˌtɔɹi/

Inherited from Middle English territorie, from Latin territōrium.

inh+

Scotland had the territory and the momentum, forcing England into almost twice as many tackles and rattling them repeatedly at set-pieces.

2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:

(sports and games) The part of the playing field or board over which a player or team has control.


AFK

I'm gonna go AFK in a few mins

(military, video games, Internet slang) Initialism of away from keyboard (that is, away from one's computer; idle)


console

Borrowed from French console (“bracket”, noun), from consoler (“to console, to comfort”, verb).
Sense of “bracket” either due to a bracket alleviating the load, or due to brackets being decorated with the Christian figure of a consolateur (“consoler”), itself perhaps a pun on the first sense (alleviating load).
Originally used for the bracket itself, then for wall-mounted tables (mounted with a bracket), then for free-standing tables placed against a wall. Use for control system dates at least to 1880s for an “organ console”; use for electrical or electronic control systems dates at least to 1930s in radio, television, and system control, particularly as “mixer console” or “control console”, attached to an equipment rack. This was popularized in computers by mainframes such as the IBM 704 (1954) in terms such as “operator’s console” or “console typewriter”, and then generalized to any attached equipment, particularly for user interaction. The automotive sense harks back to earlier use as “support”.

An instrument with displays and an input device that is used to monitor and control an electronic system.

(video games) A consumer device dedicated to playing video games, with the ability to change games.

конзола

video games: device dedicated to playing video games


console

(gaming) a video game console, a console, especially a non-portable one


console

desc

→ Armenian: քոնսոլ (kʻonsol), քոնցոլ (kʻoncʻol) — Constantinople

→ Catalan: consola

→ English: console

→ German: Konsole

→ Greek: κονσόλα (konsóla)

→ Ottoman Turkish: قونسول (konsol)

→ Turkish: konsol

→ Polish: konsola

Probably a shortened from consolateur, denoting the same architectural element, ultimately from consoler (“to console, to comfort”).

(by ellipsis) video game console, electronic gadget serving in order to play video games


console

(video games) a device dedicated to playing video games


console

Insira um memory card no console com um save do jogo Shinobi.

2005, Equipe Digerati, Dicas Arrasadoras Para Playstation, Universo dos Livros Editora, →ISBN, page 80:

(Brazil) console (device dedicated to playing video games)


Easter egg

/ˈiː.stəɹ ˌɛɡ/

Adventure (1980 video game)#Easter_egg
Easter egg

From Easter + egg. Cognate with German Low German Ooosterei (“Easter egg”), Middle High German ōsterei ("Easter egg"; > modern German Osterei).
So called because eggs would be eaten during Easter to break the fasting during Lent. (No eggs, dairy, meat except fish, lard, or foods containing these ingredients could be eaten during Lent.)
The computing sense is from the early 1980s, popularized by the video game Adventure.

gloss

"Easter egg"; > modern German <i class="Latn mention" lang="de">Osterei</i>

an Easter egg that displays the names of the application's development team

Once found, the Easter egg will often enable the player to traverse through the game much more rapidly the second time around.

2011, Myint Swe Khine, Learning to Play: Exploring the Future of Education with Video Games, page 59:

(computing, video games) An undocumented function hidden in a program or video game, typically triggered by a particular input sequence or combination of keystrokes.

ou de pasqua

an undocumented function hidden in a program


HOT

en-noun

HOT (countable and uncountable, plural HOTs)

(video games) Initialism of health over time: a status effect that restores health points as time passes


zwischenzug

From German Zwischenzug, from zwischen (“between”) + Zug (“move”).

2002, Eric Schiller, Standard Chess Openings, second edition, Cardoza Publishing, New York; Game (132).
After 12.g4 Be6; Black's 11th move becomes a zwischenzug to provoke another White pawn weakness.

(chess) A tactical move which interrupts the execution of the current plan.


oware

(games) A board game of the mancala family which originated in Africa, and is reputedly the oldest game in the world.


knap

en-verb

knap (third-person singular simple present knaps, present participle knapping, simple past and past participle knapped)

knaps (present singular third-person)
knapping (participle present)
knapped (participle past)
knapped (past)
knap (infinitive)

The verb is derived from Late Middle English knappen (“to strike (something)”); further etymology uncertain, probably related to Middle Dutch knappen, cnappen (“to break (something) with a sharp sound, snap; to crack or crackle”) (modern Dutch knappen), probably ultimately onomatopoeic.
The noun is derived from Late Middle English knap, knappe (“sharp blow, strike”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from the verb (see above), or related to an ancestor of Danish knep and Swedish knäpp (“a flick, rap, snap”), probably ultimately onomatopoeic.

napauttaa

(transitive) to say (something) crisply or sharply; (intransitive) to speak crisply or sharply

(gambling, chiefly dice games, obsolete) To cheat while gambling, especially at a dice game.


knap

'Tis your pence a piece, / […] / Preſto begon? or come aloft? VVhat vvay? / Doublets? or Knap? The Cog? lovv Dice? or high?

a. 1659 (date written), John Cleveland, “The Publick Faith”, in The Works of Mr. John Cleveland, […], London: […] R. Holt, for Obadiah Blagrave, […], published 1687, →OCLC, page 200:

And fights vvith Money-bags as bold, / As men vvith Sand-bags did of old: / […] Engages blind and ſenſeleſs Hap / 'Gainſt High, and Lovv, and Slur and Knap, […]

a. 1681 (date written), Samuel Butler, “Satyr”, in R[obert] Thyer, editor, The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler, […], volume I, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1759, →OCLC, page 83, lines 45–46 and 51–52:

(figurative, gambling, chiefly dice games, obsolete) A method of cheating at a dice game.


donk

(poker, slang, derogatory) A poor player who makes mistakes.


donk

en-verb

donk (third-person singular simple present donks, present participle donking, simple past and past participle donked)

donks (present singular third-person)
donking (participle present)
donked (participle past)
donked (past)


two-up

From the image of a wily digger playing two-up, to a prime minister at the track or the tables, the construction of gambling is as an activity quintessentially Australian.

1993, Ernest Hunter, Aboriginal Health and History: Power and Prejudice in Remote Australia, page 242:

The origins of two-up remain obscure. It probably derived from ‘pitch and toss’, a game British youths had played since the late eighteenth century. In Australia pitch and toss was first recorded in the 1850s on the Victorian goldfields, and in New Zealand as a street game on the West Coast in the early 1870s. Two-up evolved as a variant, becoming popular in Australia in the early 1890s, and in New Zealand a year or two later, as labouring men from both countries traversed the Tasman Sea in search of work.

1994, David Malcolm Grant, On a Roll: A History of Gambling and Lotteries in New Zealand, page 66:

Perversely, Scorps chooses not to punt on Anzac Day and won′t go near two-up, probably because his losses will be too public.

2008, Sam De Brito, The Lost Boys, page 280:

(Australia, New Zealand, games) A game of chance, played by betting on the outcome of two pennies thrown in the air.


canine

From Latin canīnus (“of dogs, dog-like”), from canis (“dog”). Compare French canin.

You have been dealt King-9 unsuited ("canine") in your pocket.

2005, Dennis Purdy, The Illustrated Guide to Texas Hold'em, page 270:

(poker slang) A king and a nine as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity.


pally

Clipping of paladin + -y (diminutive suffix).

(slang, fantasy roleplaying games) A paladin.


crotch

Of disputed origin; two possibilities seem likely:
* From Middle English croche, variant of crucche (“crutch”); compare crook.
* From Middle English croche, variant of crouche (“cross, crozier”).

could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck

(billiards) In the three-ball carom game, a small space at each corner of the table.


chow

Phono-semantic matching of Chinese 吃 (chī, literally “to eat”), influenced by the “food” sense of Etymology 1 above.

psm

(mahjong) A run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit.


chow

en-verb

chow (third-person singular simple present chows, present participle chowing, simple past and past participle chowed)

chows (present singular third-person)
chowing (participle present)
chowed (participle past)
chowed (past)

[…] while the adversary on his right will repeatedly bury in the discard the very tiles he wishes to chow but can't.

2007, Eleanor Noss Whitney, A Mah Jong Handbook: How to Play, Score, and Win, page 154:

(mahjong) To call a discarded tile to produce a chow.


boondock

1910s during or around the Philippine–American War after the Spanish–American War, from Tagalog bundok (“mountain”), adopted by occupying American soldiers serving in the mountains or rural countryside of the American-occupied Philippines under the United States Military Government of the Philippine Islands. The term was reinforced or re-adopted during World War II under the U.S. military, where terms like boondockers (“shoes suited for rough terrain”) came originally in 1944 as U.S. services slang word for field boots. It was later shortened to boonies by 1964 originally among U.S. troops serving in the Vietnam War in reference to the rural areas of Vietnam, as opposed to Saigon.

My family has just rediscovered tiddlywinks. […] [I] haven't quite worked out the boondock!

(tiddlywinks) A shot that strikes a squopped wink and sends it flying far away.


boondock

boondock (third-person singular simple present boondocks, present participle boondocking, simple past and past participle boondocked)

boondocks (present singular third-person)
boondocking (participle present)
boondocked (participle past)
boondocked (past)

The wise winker also engages in boondocking, a defensive strategy. It involves sending an opponent's winks far from the cup.

2002, Peder Jones, Jay Farness, College Writing Skills, page 160:

(tiddlywinks) To strike a squopped wink and send it flying far away.


gutter

Sranan Tongo: gotro

From Middle English gutter, guttur, goter, from Anglo-Norman guttere, from Old French goutiere (French gouttière), ultimately from Latin gutta (“drop”).

You can decide to use the bumpers to avoid the ball going down the gutter every time.

(bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.


alt

Of these alts, how many of them are a gender other than your own?

1996, Jonobie D. Baker, “Survey of MUSHers.”, in rec.games.mud.tiny (Usenet):

Yes, I have many alts, and no, none of the others have any unusual capitalisation.

2000, KaVir, “Code Bases - why release buggy crap?”, in alt.mud (Usenet):

(Internet slang, gaming) An alternate or secondary character.


energia

energia (nominative singular)
energiat (nominative plural)
energia (accusative nominative singular)
energiat (accusative nominative plural)
energian (accusative genitive singular)
energiat (accusative genitive plural)
energian (genitive singular)
energioiden (genitive plural)
energioitten (genitive plural)
energiain (genitive plural rare)
energiaa (partitive singular)
energioita (partitive plural)
energiassa (inessive singular)
energioissa (inessive plural)
energiasta (elative singular)
energioista (elative plural)
energiaan (illative singular)
energioihin (illative plural)
energialla (adessive singular)
energioilla (adessive plural)
energialta (ablative singular)
energioilta (ablative plural)
energialle (allative singular)
energioille (allative plural)
energiana (essive singular)
energioina (essive plural)
energiaksi (singular translative)
energioiksi (plural translative)
energiatta (abessive singular)
energioitta (abessive plural)
energioin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
energiani (nominative singular)
energiani (nominative plural)
energiani (accusative nominative singular)
energiani (accusative nominative plural)
energiani (accusative genitive singular)
energiani (accusative genitive plural)
energiani (genitive singular)
energioideni (genitive plural)
energioitteni (genitive plural)
energiaini (genitive plural rare)
energiaani (partitive singular)
energioitani (partitive plural)
energiassani (inessive singular)
energioissani (inessive plural)
energiastani (elative singular)
energioistani (elative plural)
energiaani (illative singular)
energioihini (illative plural)
energiallani (adessive singular)
energioillani (adessive plural)
energialtani (ablative singular)
energioiltani (ablative plural)
energialleni (allative singular)
energioilleni (allative plural)
energianani (essive singular)
energioinani (essive plural)
energiakseni (singular translative)
energioikseni (plural translative)
energiattani (abessive singular)
energioittani (abessive plural)
energioineni (comitative plural)
energiasi (nominative singular)
energiasi (nominative plural)
energiasi (accusative nominative singular)
energiasi (accusative nominative plural)
energiasi (accusative genitive singular)
energiasi (accusative genitive plural)
energiasi (genitive singular)
energioidesi (genitive plural)
energioittesi (genitive plural)
energiaisi (genitive plural rare)
energiaasi (partitive singular)
energioitasi (partitive plural)
energiassasi (inessive singular)
energioissasi (inessive plural)
energiastasi (elative singular)
energioistasi (elative plural)
energiaasi (illative singular)
energioihisi (illative plural)
energiallasi (adessive singular)
energioillasi (adessive plural)
energialtasi (ablative singular)
energioiltasi (ablative plural)
energiallesi (allative singular)
energioillesi (allative plural)
energianasi (essive singular)
energioinasi (essive plural)
energiaksesi (singular translative)
energioiksesi (plural translative)
energiattasi (abessive singular)
energioittasi (abessive plural)
energioinesi (comitative plural)
energiamme (nominative singular)
energiamme (nominative plural)
energiamme (accusative nominative singular)
energiamme (accusative nominative plural)
energiamme (accusative genitive singular)
energiamme (accusative genitive plural)
energiamme (genitive singular)
energioidemme (genitive plural)
energioittemme (genitive plural)
energiaimme (genitive plural rare)
energiaamme (partitive singular)
energioitamme (partitive plural)
energiassamme (inessive singular)
energioissamme (inessive plural)
energiastamme (elative singular)
energioistamme (elative plural)
energiaamme (illative singular)
energioihimme (illative plural)
energiallamme (adessive singular)
energioillamme (adessive plural)
energialtamme (ablative singular)
energioiltamme (ablative plural)
energiallemme (allative singular)
energioillemme (allative plural)
energianamme (essive singular)
energioinamme (essive plural)
energiaksemme (singular translative)
energioiksemme (plural translative)
energiattamme (abessive singular)
energioittamme (abessive plural)
energioinemme (comitative plural)
energianne (nominative singular)
energianne (nominative plural)
energianne (accusative nominative singular)
energianne (accusative nominative plural)
energianne (accusative genitive singular)
energianne (accusative genitive plural)
energianne (genitive singular)
energioidenne (genitive plural)
energioittenne (genitive plural)
energiainne (genitive plural rare)
energiaanne (partitive singular)
energioitanne (partitive plural)
energiassanne (inessive singular)
energioissanne (inessive plural)
energiastanne (elative singular)
energioistanne (elative plural)
energiaanne (illative singular)
energioihinne (illative plural)
energiallanne (adessive singular)
energioillanne (adessive plural)
energialtanne (ablative singular)
energioiltanne (ablative plural)
energiallenne (allative singular)
energioillenne (allative plural)
energiananne (essive singular)
energioinanne (essive plural)
energiaksenne (singular translative)
energioiksenne (plural translative)
energiattanne (abessive singular)
energioittanne (abessive plural)
energioinenne (comitative plural)
energiansa (nominative singular)
energiansa (nominative plural)
energiansa (accusative nominative singular)
energiansa (accusative nominative plural)
energiansa (accusative genitive singular)
energiansa (accusative genitive plural)
energiansa (genitive singular)
energioidensa (genitive plural)
energioittensa (genitive plural)
energiainsa (genitive plural rare)
energiaansa (partitive singular)
energioitaan (partitive plural)
energioitansa (partitive plural)
energiassaan (inessive singular)
energiassansa (inessive singular)
energioissaan (inessive plural)
energioissansa (inessive plural)
energiastaan (elative singular)
energiastansa (elative singular)
energioistaan (elative plural)
energioistansa (elative plural)
energiaansa (illative singular)
energioihinsa (illative plural)
energiallaan (adessive singular)
energiallansa (adessive singular)
energioillaan (adessive plural)
energioillansa (adessive plural)
energialtaan (ablative singular)
energialtansa (ablative singular)
energioiltaan (ablative plural)
energioiltansa (ablative plural)
energialleen (allative singular)
energiallensa (allative singular)
energioilleen (allative plural)
energioillensa (allative plural)
energianaan (essive singular)
energianansa (essive singular)
energioinaan (essive plural)
energioinansa (essive plural)
energiakseen (singular translative)
energiaksensa (singular translative)
energioikseen (plural translative)
energioiksensa (plural translative)
energiattaan (abessive singular)
energiattansa (abessive singular)
energioittaan (abessive plural)
energioittansa (abessive plural)
energioineen (comitative plural)
energioinensa (comitative plural)

[ˈe̞ne̞rˌɡiɑ̝]

Ultimately from Latin energia, from Ancient Greek ἐνέργεια (enérgeia).


open-ended

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The flop of 3-6-Q gave Brunson an open-ended straight draw with his 4-5 of hearts.

(poker) Of a straight draw, made up of four consecutive cards, thus able to be completed by either of two ranks of card.


hangman

en-noun

hangman (countable and uncountable, plural hangmen)

From Middle English hangman, hongman, hangeman, equivalent to hang + -man.

(uncountable, games) A guessing game where one has to guess the word an opponent is thinking of by guessing one letter at a time, and involving the gradual drawing of a stick figure hanging from the gallows.


multiplex

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From multi- + -plex or multi- + complex.

(juggling) throwing motion where more than one ball is thrown with one hand at the same time.


quad

Shortened, via clipping or abbreviation, from various English terms. Ultimately related to Latin quattuor (“4”); compare quadri-, quadruple.
The typography senses are from the abbreviation quad. for obsolete quadrat; the keyboard command comes from the verb sense.

Clipping of quadruplet (“a set of four; one of a set of four”).

(chess) A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once.

Both players had four of a kind. A had quad fours; B had quad deuces.

2001, Alfred Alvarez, Poker: Bets, Bluffs and Bad Beats, page 90:

(poker slang, attributive) Of or relating to quads (four of a kind).


opener

オープナー

baseball pitcher who starts the game, but is planned to have a short outing

(card games) The player who starts the betting.

(card games, in the plural) Cards of sufficient value to enable a player to open the betting.

avauskortti

openers: cards of sufficient value to enable a player to open the betting


shove

en-verb

shove (third-person singular simple present shoves, present participle shoving, simple past shoved or (obsolete) shave, past participle shoved or (obsolete) shoven)

shoves (present singular third-person)
shoving (participle present)
shoved (past)
shave (obsolete past)
shoved (participle past)
shoven (obsolete participle past)

From Middle English schoven, shoven, schouven, from Old English sċūfan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeuban, from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-.
See also West Frisian skowe, Low German schuven, Dutch schuiven, German schieben, Danish skubbe, Norwegian Bokmål skyve, Norwegian Nynorsk skuva; also Lithuanian skùbti ‘to hurry’, Polish skubać ‘to pluck’, Albanian humb ‘to lose.'

(poker, by ellipsis) To make an all-in bet.


casino

en-noun

casino (countable and uncountable, plural casinos or casinoes or casini)

casinos (plural)
casinoes (plural)
casini (plural)

From Italian casino, diminutive form of casa (“house”), from Latin casa (“cottage, hut”).

A bid by Donald Trump to build Sydney’s first casino was rejected 30 years ago after police expressed concerns about his links to the mafia.

2017 August 16, Christopher Knauss, The Guardian:

kazino

public building or room for entertainment, especially gambling


casino

nl-noun

casino m (plural casino's, diminutive casinootje n)

casino's (plural)
casinootje (diminutive neuter)

→ Indonesian: kasino


casino

→ Italian: casinò


casino

→ English: casino

→ Ladino: gazino

→ Ottoman Turkish: غازینو (gazino)

Turkish: gazino

→ Portuguese: casino

→ Spanish: casino

From casa + -ino; cognate with Piedmontese casin.


casino

Borrowed from Italian casino. Doublet of cassino.


casino

(Chile) cafeteria, canteen (staff restaurant)


casino

casino (indefinite nominative singular)
casinos (genitive indefinite singular)
casinot (definite nominative singular)
casinots (definite genitive singular)
casinon (indefinite nominative plural)
casinons (genitive indefinite plural)
casinona (definite nominative plural)
casinonas (definite genitive plural)


roly-poly

en-noun

roly-poly (countable and uncountable, plural roly-polys or roly-polies)

roly-polys (plural)
roly-polies (plural)

/ˌɹəʊlɪˈpəʊli/

The noun is apparently derived from roll (“to turn over and over”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’), reduplicated with a change of the initial consonant. Compare rolly (“having the ability to roll, rolling”, adjective), which is attested since the 19th century.
Sense 1.7 (“mischievous or worthless person”) is possibly influenced by poll (“head; (archaic) scalp; (by extension) person”).
The adjective and adverb are attested later than the noun, and so are probably derived from it.

rolly-pooly

game in which balls are rolled or bowled into holes

Often I did view the shade / Where once a nest my eyes did fill, / And often mark'd the place I play'd / At "roly poly" down the hill.

1821, John Clare, “[Poems.] Recollections after a Ramble.”, in The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems, volume I, London: […] [T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey, […]; and E[dward] Drury, […], →OCLC, stanza 8, page 128:

(uncountable, historical) An activity or game involving rolling.

(games) A game involving people (usually children) rolling down a slope.

kierimisleikki

This is one of the games prohibited by Edward IV.; and received its denomination from being played with one half of a sphere of wood. Half-bowl is practised to this day in Hertfordshire, where it is commonly called rolly-polly; and it is best performed upon the floor of a room, especially if it be smooth and level. There are fifteen small pins of a conical form required for this pastime; […] the bowl, when delivered, must pass above the pins, and round the end-pin, without the circle, before it beats any of them down; if not, the cast is forfeited: […]

1841, Joseph Strutt, William Hone, chapter VII, in The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England. […], new edition, London: […] Thomas Tegg, […], →OCLC, book III (Pastimes usually Exercised in Towns and Cities, or Places Adjoining to Them), section XII (Half-bowl), page 274:

ROLY-POLY, or NINE HOLES, a game of ball played by any number of persons, generally nine. […] The Roller tries to roll the ball into one of the holes. If he makes three consecutive misses, a pebble is placed in his hole. […] Roly Poly is a very old English game. It is sometimes played in England with hats instead of holes, and it is then often called Egg Hat. In this case the ball is pitched instead of rolled.

1890, John D[enison] Champlin [Jr.], Arthur E[lmore] Bostwick, “Roly-poly, or Nine Holes”, in The Young Folk’s Cyclopædia of Games and Sports, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, pages 585–586:

"Gee, we can play Roly Poly," argued John. "We can play right in this room." / "Sure," agreed Bobby. "All we'll have to do is to make our triangle and bowling lines."

1927, Ellsworth Collings, “Education as Growth”, in School Supervision in Theory and Practice, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell Company, →OCLC, part I (The Improvement of Supervision Theory), page 6:

(games) A game in which balls are rolled along the floor to knock down pins, or bowled into holes, or thrown into hats placed on the ground.

palloleikki

game in which balls are bowled into holes or thrown into hats placed on the ground

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforeſaid, That if any Perſon or Perſons whatſoever ſhall, after the ſaid Twenty fourth Day of June, One thouſand ſeven hundred and forty five, play at the ſaid Game of Roulet, otherwiſe Roly-poly, or at any Game of Chance with Cards or Dice, already prohibited by Law, every ſuch Perſon or Perſons ſo offending, ſhall alſo incur the Pains and Penalties, and be liable to ſuch Proſecution, as is directed in and by an Act made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of His preſent Majeſty, intituled, An Act for the more effectual preventing exceſſive and deceitful Gaming.

1744, “An Act to Explain, Amend, and Make More Effectual the Laws in Being, to Prevent Excessive and Deceitful Gaming; and to Restrain and Prevent the Excessive Increase of Horse Races”, in Anno Regni Georgii II. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, Decimo Octavo. […] [In the Year of the Reign of George II. King of Great Britain, France, & Ireland, the Eighteenth …], London: […] Thomas Baskett, printer to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty; and by the assigns of Robert Baskett, published 1745, →OCLC, section 2, page 712:

(gaming) Synonym of roulette (“a game of chance in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game”)


toon

Proxemics are very important, however, as the positioning of an agent's toon in anon-combat grouping or in the environment can show place within a social group.

2010, Ben Kei Daniel, Handbook of Research on Methods and Techniques for Studying Virtual Communities, →ISBN:

(informal, video games) A player's avatar or visible character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.


GM

en-noun

GM (countable and uncountable, plural GMs)

(countable, roleplaying games) Initialism of game master or game moderator.

(countable, chess) Initialism of Grandmaster.


GM

en-verb

GM (third-person singular simple present GMs, present participle GMing, simple past and past participle GMed)

GMs (present singular third-person)
GMing (participle present)
GMed (participle past)
GMed (past)

(roleplaying games) To act as a game master; to run a tabletop role-playing game.


reader

From Middle English reder, redar, redere, redare, from Old English rēdere, rǣdere (“a reader; scholar; diviner”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādāri, equivalent to read + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Räider (“advisor”), Dutch rader (“advisor”), German Rater (“advisor”).

LUMINOUS READERS—Marked cards that can be read only through tinted glasses.

1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations, Gambling and Organized Crime, Parts 1, 2, 3. 87-1, page 286:

Of the 150,000,000 decks of cards sold each year in America, Scarne estimates that 1 percent get marked at some point. Yet, as he discovered in his 1972 gambling survey, only 2 percent of average players have any idea of how to detect these "readers."

1991, John Bowyer Bell, Barton Whaley, Cheating and Deception, page 185:

(slang, gambling, in the plural) Marked playing cards used by cheaters.


outpost

(chess) A square protected by a pawn that is in or near the enemy's stronghold.


sweeper

From Middle English swepere, swepare, equivalent to sweep + -er. Cognate with Middle Low German swēpære, swēper (“broom for sweeping up debris”).

(video games) A character designed or capable of knocking out multiple enemies in succession, usually due to a combination of high offense and high speed.


on time

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Smith beat Jones on time.

(chess) By a player's running out of time.


skip

From Middle English skippen, skyppen, of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skupjaną, perhaps related to *skeubaną (“to drive, push”), iterative *skuppōną (“to push/move repeatedly, skip”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ- (“to push, throw, shake”).
Related to Icelandic skopa (“to take a run”), Old Swedish skuppa (“to skip”), modern dialectal Swedish skopa, skimpa (“to skip, leap”), and English shove. See also dialectal English skimp (“to mock”) (Etymology 1), considered by some to be related.

der

The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

(video games) A trick allowing the player to proceed to a later section of the game without playing through a section that was intended to be mandatory.


skip

Late Middle English skipper, borrowed from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German schipper (“captain”), earlier "seaman", from schip (“ship”).

(bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.


gal

Short for galgame, borrowed from Japanese ギャルゲーム (gyaru gēmu), which is wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism), derived from gal + game.

pseudo-loan

推gal

(ACG, video games) galge (video or computer game centered around interactions with attractive anime-style girls)


Junge

de-noun

Junge m (weak, genitive Jungen, plural Jungen or Jungs or Jungens, diminutive Jünglein n or Jüngelchen n or Jüngchen n or (rare, often poetic) Jüngelein n)

Jungen (genitive)
Jungen (plural)
Jungs (plural)
Jungens (plural)
Jünglein (diminutive neuter)
Jüngelchen (diminutive neuter)
Jüngchen (diminutive neuter)
Jüngelein (diminutive neuter often poetic rare)
Junge (nominative singular)
Jungen (definite nominative plural)
Jungs (colloquial definite nominative plural)
Jungens (colloquial definite nominative plural)
Jungen (genitive singular)
Jungen (definite genitive plural)
Jungs (colloquial definite genitive plural)
Jungens (colloquial definite genitive plural)
Jungen (dative singular)
Jungen (dative definite plural)
Jungs (colloquial dative definite plural)
Jungens (colloquial dative definite plural)
Jungen (accusative singular)
Jungen (accusative definite plural)
Jungs (accusative colloquial definite plural)
Jungens (accusative colloquial definite plural)

Fixed nominalisation of Middle High German jung (“young”), from Old High German jung (“young”).
Already occasionally in Middle High German [Term?], later gaining a fixed noun form based on its weak nominative inflection (giving ein Junge instead of ein Junger). The recognition as the normal standard term for “boy” is based on Central and Low German usage and has only fully asserted itself during the 20th century (compare Knabe). The now quite common plural form Jungs (Jungens) is also from German Low German [Term?]. Cognate with English young (noun).


ludar

head

ludar (present tense ludas, past tense ludis, future tense ludos, imperative ludez, conditional ludus)

ludas (present)
ludis (past)
tense ludos (future)
ludez (imperative)
ludus (conditional)
ludar (infinitive present)
ludir (infinitive past)
ludor (future infinitive)
ludas (present)
ludis (past)
ludos (future)
ludus (conditional present)
ludez (imperative present)
ludanta (active adjective participle present)
ludinta (active adjective participle past)
ludonta (active adjective future participle)
ludante (active adverbial participle present)
ludinte (active adverbial participle past)
ludonte (active adverbial future participle)
ludanto (active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
ludinto (active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
ludonto (active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
ludanti (active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
ludinti (active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
ludonti (active future noun-from-verb participle plural)

From Esperanto ludi, from Latin lūdere, present active infinitive of lūdō.

(intransitive, games, sports) to play (with)


kiss chase

(games) A children's game similar to tag, the object being for the person who is "it" to catch and kiss another of the participants, who then subsequently becomes "it".


follow suit

en-verb

follow suit (third-person singular simple present follows suit, present participle following suit, simple past and past participle followed suit)

follows suit (present singular third-person)
following suit (participle present)
followed suit (participle past)
followed suit (past)

(card games) To play a card of the same suit as the previous or leading card.


ludo

eo-head

ludo (accusative singular ludon, plural ludoj, accusative plural ludojn)

ludon (accusative singular)
ludoj (plural)
ludojn (accusative plural)


walking stick

(card games, slang) A playing card with the rank of seven.

seiska

slang: playing card with the rank of seven


blink

en-verb

blink (third-person singular simple present blinks, present participle blinking, simple past and past participle blinked)

blinks (present singular third-person)
blinking (participle present)
blinked (participle past)
blinked (past)

From Middle English blynken, blenken, from Old English blincan (suggested by causative verb blenċan (“to deceive”); > English blench), from Proto-Germanic *blinkaną, a variant of *blīkaną (“to gleam, shine”).
Cognate with Dutch blinken (“to glitter, shine”), German blinken (“to flash, blink”), Danish blinke (“to flash, twinkle, wink, blink”), Swedish blinka (“to flash, blink, twinkle, wink, blink”). Related to blank, blick, blike, bleak.

blikat

to flash on and off at regular intervals

(science fiction, video games) To teleport, mostly for short distances.


blink

en-noun

blink (countable and uncountable, plural blinks)

(video games) An ability that allows teleporting, mostly for short distances


one up

If you hit that block, you can get a one up.

(video games) Alternative spelling of 1-up (“extra life”)


plena

(games) a game similar to bingo popular around Christmastime


pung

(mahjong) A set of three identical tiles.


black jack

black jack (nominative singular)
black jacki (nominative plural)
black jacka (genitive singular)
black jacków (genitive plural)
black jackowi (dative singular)
black jackom (dative plural)
black jacka (accusative singular)
black jacki (accusative plural)
black jackiem (instrumental singular)
black jackami (instrumental plural)
black jacku (locative singular)
black jackach (locative plural)
black jacku (singular vocative)
black jacki (plural vocative)

/blɛɡˈd͡ʐɛk/

Unadapted borrowing from English blackjack.

ubor

(card games) Alternative spelling of blackjack


tactic

Borrowed from New Latin tactica, from Ancient Greek τακτικός (taktikós, “fit for ordering”), from τάσσω (tássō, “to order, to arrange”).

der

(chess) A sequence of moves that limits the opponent's options and results in an immediate and tangible advantage, typically in the form of material.


mob

You can't win with small, balanced groups. You have to zerg the mob with a high number of players.

2002, Wolfie, “Re: Whoa - massive changes due in next patch”, in alt.games.everquest (Usenet):

non-player character
non-player character

(video games) A non-player character, especially one that exists to be fought or killed to further the progression of the story or game.


cripple

en-verb

cripple (third-person singular simple present cripples, present participle crippling, simple past and past participle crippled)

cripples (present singular third-person)
crippling (participle present)
crippled (participle past)
crippled (past)

From Middle English cripel, crepel, crüpel, from Old English crypel (“crippled; a cripple”), from Proto-Germanic *krupilaz (“tending to crawl; a cripple”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend, crouch, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to bend, twist”), equivalent to creep + -le. Cognate with Dutch kreupel, Low German Kröpel, German Krüppel, Old Norse kryppill.

der

(slang, video games) To nerf something which is overpowered.


back out

en-verb

back out (third-person singular simple present backs out, present participle backing out, simple past and past participle backed out)

backs out (present singular third-person)
backing out (participle present)
backed out (participle past)
backed out (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-back out.wav

1921, Henry Luttrell, Crockford's : Or Life in the West Sketch No. III
Whatever you throw is your chance. I called five for the main, which is the out chance, and threw seven to it, which is the in chance. If I throw five first, I lose, and if seven I win. You can back me in by betting the odds, or you can back me out, by taking the odds, the bank answers either way.

See also: sell short


apuntar

es-verb

apuntar (first-person singular present apunto, first-person singular preterite apunté, past participle apuntado)

apunto (first-person present singular)
apunté (first-person preterite singular)
apuntado (participle past)
apuntar (infinitive)
apuntando (gerund)
apuntado (masculine participle past singular)
apuntada (feminine participle past singular)
apuntados (masculine participle past plural)
apuntadas (feminine participle past plural)
apunto (first-person indicative present singular)
apuntas (indicative informal present second-person singular)
apuntás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
apunta (indicative present singular third-person)
apuntamos (first-person indicative plural present)
apuntáis (indicative plural present second-person)
apuntan (indicative plural present third-person)
apuntaba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
apuntabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
apuntaba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
apuntábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
apuntabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
apuntaban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
apunté (first-person indicative preterite singular)
apuntaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
apuntó (indicative preterite singular third-person)
apuntamos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
apuntasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
apuntaron (indicative plural preterite third-person)
apuntaré (first-person future indicative singular)
apuntarás (future indicative second-person singular)
apuntará (future indicative singular third-person)
apuntaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
apuntaréis (future indicative plural second-person)
apuntarán (future indicative plural third-person)
apuntaría (conditional first-person indicative singular)
apuntarías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
apuntaría (conditional indicative singular third-person)
apuntaríamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
apuntaríais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
apuntarían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
apunte (first-person present singular subjunctive)
apuntes (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
apuntés (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
apunte (present singular subjunctive third-person)
apuntemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
apuntéis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
apunten (plural present subjunctive third-person)
apuntara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
apuntaras (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
apuntara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
apuntáramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
apuntarais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
apuntaran (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
apuntase (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
apuntases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
apuntase (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
apuntásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
apuntaseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
apuntasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
apuntare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
apuntares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
apuntare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
apuntáremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
apuntareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
apuntaren (future plural subjunctive third-person)
apunta (imperative informal second-person singular)
apuntá (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
apunte (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
apunte (imperative singular third-person)
apuntemos (first-person imperative plural)
apuntad (imperative plural second-person)
apunten (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
apunten (imperative plural third-person)
apuntes (imperative negative second-person singular)
apunte (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
apunte (imperative negative singular third-person)
apuntemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
apuntéis (imperative negative plural second-person)
apunten (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
apunten (imperative negative plural third-person)
apuntarme (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
apuntarte (combined-form dative infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
apuntarle (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
apuntarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
apuntarnos (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
apuntaros (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
apuntarles (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
apuntarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
apuntarme (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
apuntarte (accusative combined-form infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
apuntarlo (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
apuntarla (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
apuntarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
apuntarnos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
apuntaros (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
apuntarlos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
apuntarlas (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
apuntarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
apuntándome (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-singular)
apuntándote (combined-form dative gerund object-second-person object-singular)
apuntándole (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
apuntándose (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
apuntándonos (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-plural)
apuntándoos (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-second-person)
apuntándoles (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
apuntándose (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
apuntándome (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-singular)
apuntándote (accusative combined-form gerund object-second-person object-singular)
apuntándolo (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
apuntándola (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
apuntándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
apuntándonos (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-plural)
apuntándoos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-second-person)
apuntándolos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
apuntándolas (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
apuntándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
apúntame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
apúntate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
apúntale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
apúntanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
apúntales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
apúntame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
apúntate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
apúntalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
apúntala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
apúntanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
apúntalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
apúntalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
apuntame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
apuntate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
apuntale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
apuntanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
apuntales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
apuntame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
apuntate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
apuntalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
apuntala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
apuntanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
apuntalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
apuntalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
apúnteme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
apúntele (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
apúntese (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
apúntenos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
apúnteles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
apúnteme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
apúntelo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
apúntela (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
apúntese (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
apúntenos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
apúntelos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
apúntelas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
apuntémoste (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
apuntémosle (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
apuntémonos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
apuntémoos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
apuntémosles (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
apuntémoste (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
apuntémoslo (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
apuntémosla (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
apuntémonos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
apuntémoos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
apuntémoslos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
apuntémoslas (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
apuntadme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
apuntadle (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
apuntadnos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
apuntaos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
apuntadles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
apuntadme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
apuntadlo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
apuntadla (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
apuntadnos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
apuntaos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
apuntadlos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
apuntadlas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
apúntenme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
apúntenle (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
apúntennos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
apúntenles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
apúntense (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
apúntenme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
apúntenlo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
apúntenla (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
apúntennos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
apúntenlos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
apúntenlas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
apúntense (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)

From a- + punto + -ar or a- + punta + -ar. Compare English appoint.

(transitive, card games) to bet, to put up money, to stake (only in certain card games)


Wurm

de-noun

m:n􂀿alternatively when meaning "baby, mite"􂁀,es:s,^er:^e􂀿archaic􂁀

Wurm m or (alternatively when meaning "baby, mite") n (strong, genitive Wurmes or Wurms, plural Würmer or (archaic) Würme, diminutive Würmchen n or Würmlein n)

meaning "baby
mite"
Wurmes (genitive)
Wurms (genitive)
Würmer (plural)
Würme (archaic plural)
Würmchen (diminutive neuter)
Würmlein (diminutive neuter)
Wurm (definite nominative singular)
Würmer (definite nominative plural)
Würme (archaic definite nominative plural)
Wurmes (genitive singular)
Wurms (genitive singular)
Würmer (definite genitive plural)
Würme (archaic definite genitive plural)
Wurm (dative singular)
Wurme (dative singular)
Würmern (dative definite plural)
Würmen (archaic dative definite plural)
Wurm (accusative definite singular)
Würmer (accusative definite plural)
Würme (accusative archaic definite plural)

From Middle High German wurm, from Old High German wurm, from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis. Cognate with Dutch worm, English worm, West Frisian wjirm, Danish orm, Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌼𐍃 (waurms).

(colloquial, endearing) a baby or small child; a mite; any helpless creature


sika

sika (nominative singular)
siat (nominative plural)
sian (genitive singular)
sikkoin (genitive plural)
sikkaa (partitive singular)
sikoja (partitive plural)
sikkaa (illative singular)
sikkoi (illative plural)
sias (inessive singular)
siois (inessive plural)
siast (elative singular)
sioist (elative plural)
sialle (allative singular)
sioille (allative plural)
sial (adessive singular)
sioil (adessive plural)
sialt (ablative singular)
sioilt (ablative plural)
siaks (singular translative)
sioiks (plural translative)
sikanna (essive singular)
sikkaan (essive singular)
sikoinna (essive plural)
sikkoin (essive plural)
sikant (exessive singular)
sikoint (exessive plural)

From Proto-Finnic *cika. Cognates include Finnish sika and Estonian siga.

A certain card game, where players take turns drawing cards from the deck and try to discard them.


Mexican standoff

en-noun

Mexican standoff (plural Mexican standoffs)

Mexican standoff
Reservoir Dogs
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

1876 US.
Three-way gun standoffs, popularized in spaghetti westerns such as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966), have come to be called Mexican standoffs, though this usage appears to date to the 1990s, notably in reference to Reservoir Dogs (1992); earlier usage refers to this as a “three-way standoff” or “triangular standoff”.

(slang) A stalemate, or a confrontation among two or more sides that no side can win.

(slang, poker) A pot that is split among the players because of a tie.


gank

en-verb

gank (third-person singular simple present ganks, present participle ganking, simple past and past participle ganked)

ganks (present singular third-person)
ganking (participle present)
ganked (participle past)
ganked (past)

Our group totally ganked this guy.

(transitive, Internet, online gaming, slang) To kill much weaker players in an online video game in such a way that they cannot defend themselves.


Blatt

head

Blatt n (plural Bletter, diminutive Blettli)

From Middle High German blat, plat, from Old High German blat, from Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *bladą. Cognate with German Blatt, Dutch blad, English blade, Icelandic blað, Swedish blad.


oro

(in the plural) a suit in a Spanish deck of cards


oro

Chavacano: oro

→ Cebuano: oro

→ Navajo: óola

→ Seri: hooro

→ Taos: ùruʼúna

→ Tagalog: oro

Inherited from Old Spanish oro, from Latin aurum (compare Catalan or, Dalmatian jaur, French or, Galician ouro, Italian oro, Occitan aur, Portuguese ouro, Romanian aur), from Proto-Italic *auzom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂é-h₂us-o- (“glow”). Cognate with English aurum.


oro

es-adj

oro m or f (masculine and feminine plural oros)


pancake

en-noun

pancake (countable and uncountable, plural pancakes)

→ Cantonese: 班戟 (baan¹ gik¹)

→ Mandarin: 班戟 (bānjǐ)

→ Cebuano: pankeyk

→ French: pancake

→ German: Pancake

desc

→ Hijazi Arabic: بانكيك (bānkēk, pānkēk)

→⇒ Irish: pancóg

→ Japanese: パンケーキ (pankēki)

→⇒ Khmer: នំផេនខេក (num pheenkheek)

→ Korean: 팬케이크 (paenkeikeu)

→ Nauruan: epankeik

→ Portuguese: panqueca, (dated) panqueque, (dated) pancake

→ Russian: панкейк (pankejk)

→ Spanish: (Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay) panqueque, (Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico) pancake, (Venezuela) panqueca

→ Thai: แพนเค้ก (pɛɛn-kéek)

→ Turkish: pankek

→ Azerbaijani: pankek

→ Yoruba: pan̄kéèkì

Inherited from Middle English pancake, panne cake, pankake, ponkake, equivalent to pan + cake.
Perhaps adapted from Middle Low German pankôke, pannekôke, from Old Saxon *pannakōko (suggested by derivatives Old Saxon pannakōkilo and pannakōkilīn), where the compound is much older; compare Old High German phankuohho (8th century), whence Middle High German phankuoche, German Pfannkuchen (“pancake”); further
Saterland Frisian Ponkouke, Ponkuuke (“pancake”), West Frisian pankoek (“pancake”), Dutch pannenkoek (“pancake”), German Low German Pannkook (“pancake”).
The juggling sense is by analogy with a pancake being tossed in a pan.

have been working on pancake throws with rings for the past few months and I have been trying to make the throws perfectly spun and as consistent as possible.

2004, Beinn Muir <bm260@nospam4me.cam.ac.uk>, “Ring juggling: pancake throws”, in rec.juggling (Usenet):

(countable, juggling) A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.


musical chairs

(games) A children's game in which players circle a group of chairs. There is one chair fewer than the number of players. When someone who is not watching stops playing music, everybody sits down, and the player left without a chair is eliminated.


hot potato

en-noun

hot potato (countable and uncountable, plural hot potatoes)

(uncountable) A child's game in which players pass a ball or other item between them, with the object of avoiding being left holding the item when time expires.


pass the parcel

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pass the parcel.wav

(games) A children's game in which a parcel having many layers of packaging is passed from person to person around a ring while music plays, the person holding the parcel when the music is temporarily stopped being allowed to remove a single layer, and the person removing the innermost layer winning the prize contained within; in a variation of the game, there is a prize under each layer that is awarded to the person removing that layer.


suicide king

So called because in common depictions, the king of hearts appears to be stabbing himself in the head with his sword.

When Henry played poker, he liked to declare suicide kings wild, as he felt it lent him an air of sophistication.

Bayr laid the card down on top of the cowboy's. “Suicide king,” he said softly, touching the king of hearts' sword with his forefinger.

2008 April 30, Connie Bailey, “Fancy Pants”, in Know When to Hold'em: A Dreamspinner Press Anthology, Frisco: Dreamspinner Press, →ISBN, page 115:

(card games, slang) A king of hearts in a deck of playing cards.


blue peter

The flag, serving as a signal of recall for departure, was used by the British Navy from 1777, and the name “blue peter” had become common by the end of the 18th century. An all-blue flag had earlier seen use for the same purpose by the Dutch East India Company. While “blue” obviously refers to the dominant colour of the flag, the origin of the second part of the term, “peter”, is unknown. Often said to be a corruption of “blue repeater”, there is actually no signal flag that goes by that designation. The use of the flag to spell the letter “P” dates from 1857 and so cannot have played a role in the origin of the term.
The whist play, introduced by Lord Henry Bentinck, was named by him after the flag.

(card games, intransitive) In whist, a play that calls for trumps by throwing away a higher card of a suit while holding a lower one.


blue peter

en-verb

blue peter (third-person singular simple present blue peters, present participle blue petering, simple past and past participle blue petered)

blue peters (present singular third-person)
blue petering (participle present)
blue petered (participle past)
blue petered (past)

(card games, intransitive) In whist, to play a blue peter.


roleplaying game

en-noun

roleplaying game (plural roleplaying games)

joc de rol

type of game in which the players assume the role of a character

massively multiplayer online role-playing game

(games) A type of game where one or more players assume the roles of characters (usually one each) to interact with a fictional world either defined by themselves or through the moderation of a neutral judge (usually referred to as the game master).

RPG

game where players assume the role of characters

(video games) A type of computer game where the player takes the role of a character or party, normally lacking tests of physical skill and including more story-telling and narrative aspects than traditional action games.


hide and seek

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hide and seek.wav

I would sometimes lie down, and let five or six of them dance on my hand; and at last the boys and girls would venture to come and play at hide-and-seek in my hair.

1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels:

(playground games) A game where the players have to hide and one has to seek them out.


patience

patience (usually uncountable, plural patiences)

Sranan Tongo: pasensi

From Middle English pacience, from Old French pacience (modern French patience), from Latin patientia (“suffering; endurance, patience”), from patiens, present active participle of patior (“suffer, experience, wait”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hurt”). Displaced native Old English ġeþyld.

der

Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called solitaire in the US and Canada.


trounce

en-verb

trounce (third-person singular simple present trounces, present participle trouncing, simple past and past participle trounced)

trounces (present singular third-person)
trouncing (participle present)
trounced (participle past)
trounced (past)

The origin of the verb is unknown; it is perhaps related to Old French troncer, troncher, troncir, tronchir (“to cut; to cut a piece from; to retrench”), from Old French tronce, tronche (“stump; piece of wood”). However, the English and Old French words differ in meaning.
The noun is derived from the verb.

The Mexican team trounced the Americans by 10 goals to 1.

Mar[ina]. Crowd the Fidler is not there: / And my mind delighted is / With no ſtroke ſo much as his. / Mop[so]. If not he, / There will bee / Drone the Piper that will trounce it. / Mar. But if Crowd / Struck alowd, / Lord me thinks how I could bounce it.

1650, [Richard Brathwait], “The Shepheards Holy Day, Mopso and Marina”, in Recreation for Ingenious Head-peeces. Or, A Pleasant Grove for Their Wits to Walke in, […], London: Printed by M. Simmons, and are to be sold by John Hancock […], →OCLC:

What skill and dexterity soldiers, who are called together only once a week, may possess, in trouncing an enemy, which has already trounced half Europe, I will not pretend to determine; [...]

1803 August 28, G. H., “Letter II. August 28th, 1803.”, in Alfred’s Letters. An Essay on the Constitution of England, and an Appeal to the People; with Six Letters, on the Subject of Invasion, Originally Addressed to the Printers of the Two Shrewsbury Papers, Wellington, Iron Bridge [Shropshire?]: Printed by F. Houlston and Son, published 1804, →OCLC, page 15:

If by such reasoning all systems of political authority are rejected, [Mikhail] Bakunin, the greatest anarchist of the nineteenth century, must appear in the light of an ingenious berserker hastening in advance of his generation to wage war against Idea and Intellect, and to clear away all metaphysical and ideological obstacles, trouncing in a Scythian frenzy religion and politics, theology and law.

1932 January, Carl Schmitt, “[The Necessity of Politics] The Outcome”, in Carl Schmitt, Nicholas Berdyaev, Michael de la B[é]doyère, Vital Realities (Essays in Order; 5–7), New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 77:

In fact, they tried to defeat her [Margaret Chase Smith] by offering to support her in a run for the governorship. Smith declined the offer and surprised everyone by trouncing three popular opponents in the Republican primary. She then went on to an easy victory in the general election.

1994, Isobel V. Morin, “Margaret Chase Smith: A Woman’s Place is in the House and in the Senate”, in Women of the U.S. Congress (Profiles), Minneapolis, Minn.: Oliver Press, →ISBN, pages 35 and 37:

In the divisional playoff, the [Denver] Broncos avenged their loss to the Miami Dolphins, trouncing them 38–3.

1999, Mark Stewart, “Staying on Top”, in Mariah Morgan, editor, Terrell Davis: Toughing It Out (Football’s New Wave), Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press, →ISBN, page 41:

I dislike bragging, but Edward and I trounced the opposition in the debate on state's rights last week. We received a hearty round of applause and have now challenged the debating team from Carleton to a match.

2003, Lauraine Snelling, More Than a Dream (Return to Red River; 3), Bloomington, Minn.: Bethany House Publishers, →ISBN, page 237:

Others believe big tech companies such as Google will quickly trounce the young upstarts, and that some of the new companies have little competitive advantage.

2023 January 7, Erin Griffith, Cade Metz, “A New Area of A.I. Booms, Even Amid the Tech Gloom”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(transitive) To beat or overcome thoroughly, to defeat heavily; especially (games, sports) to win against (someone) by a wide margin.


huddle

From Middle English *hudelen, alteration (due to hudels, hidels (“hiding place”), see hiddle) of *huderen, hoderen (“to cover; press together; huddle”), a frequentative form of Middle English huden, hiden (“to hide”), equivalent to hide + -le and/or hide + -er. Compare Low German huderken (“to brood; coddle; nurse; lull children to sleep”).

cog

(bridge) A hesitation during play to think about one's next move.


huddle

en-verb

huddle (third-person singular simple present huddles, present participle huddling, simple past and past participle huddled)

huddles (present singular third-person)
huddling (participle present)
huddled (participle past)
huddled (past)

(bridge, intransitive) To hesitate during play while thinking about one's next move.


reĝo

eo-head

reĝo (accusative singular reĝon, plural reĝoj, accusative plural reĝojn)

reĝon (accusative singular)
reĝoj (plural)
reĝojn (accusative plural)

→ Ido: rejo

From Latin rex, regis (“king”). Doublet of raĝo via Proto-Indo-European. Compare Interlingua rege (“king”) and Volapük reg (“queen, king”).

la trefa reĝo


probe

For verb: borrowed from Latin probare (“to test, examine, prove”), from probus (“good”). Doublet of prove.
For noun: borrowed from Late Latin proba (“a proof”), from probare (“to test, examine, prove”); Doublet of proof. Compare Spanish tienta (“a surgeon's probe”), from tentar (“try, test”); see tempt.

сонда

any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc

(go) A move with multiple possible answers, seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy.


tens

teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties

Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties


sledge

Dialectal Dutch sleedse, from Middle Dutch sleedse, from the root of sled.

A card game resembling all fours and seven-up; old sledge.


duplicate

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
Borrowed from Latin duplicātus, perfect passive participle of duplicō.

duplicate whist

duplicate Scrabble

(games) In which the hands of cards, tiles, etc. are preserved between rounds to be played again by other players.


tug of war

en-noun

tug of war (plural tugs of war or tug of wars)

tugs of war (plural)
tug of wars (plural)

A game or competition in which two teams pull or tug on opposite ends of a rope trying to force the other team over the line which initially marked the middle between the two teams.


windmill

From Middle English wyndmylne, wyndmylle, equivalent to wind + mill. Cognate with Scots wyndmyln, wyndmyl, Saterland Frisian Wíendmäälne, West Frisian wynmûne, Dutch windmolen, Afrikaans windmeul, Dutch Low Saxon windmölle (Achterhooks), wiendmeule (Drents, Veluws), German Low German Windmöhl, German Windmühle, Danish vindmølle, Norwegian Bokmål vindmølle, Norwegian Nynorsk vindmølle, vindmylne, Swedish vindmölla, Icelandic vindmylla.


wired

en-adj

wired (comparative more wired, superlative most wired)

more wired (comparative)
most wired (superlative)

(poker slang) Being a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one face down.

I was dealt three of a kind, wired.

(poker slang) Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.


bg

(online gaming slang) Initialism of bad game.


bowling

bowling (nominative singular)
bowlingu (genitive singular)
bowlingowi (dative singular)
bowling (accusative singular)
bowlingiem (instrumental singular)
bowlingu (locative singular)
bowlingu (singular vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English bowling.


collision

en-noun

collision (countable and uncountable, plural collisions)

From Middle French collision, from Late Latin collīsiō, from Latin collīdere, past participle collīsus (“to dash together”); see collide. cf. allision.

collision detection
collision detection#English

(computing, chiefly video games) Clipping of collision detection; tangibility.


carré

nl-noun

carré n or m (plural carrés, diminutive carreetje n)

carrés (plural)
carreetje (diminutive neuter)


carré

→ Russian: каре́ (karé) (see there for further descendants)

→ Polish: kara (“quadrangle”)

→ Turkish: kare

Inherited from Middle French quarré, from Old French quarré, from Latin quadrātus. Compare the borrowed doublet cadrat.


humiliate

en-verb

humiliate (third-person singular simple present humiliates, present participle humiliating, simple past and past participle humiliated)

humiliates (present singular third-person)
humiliating (participle present)
humiliated (participle past)
humiliated (past)

From Late Latin humiliatus, past participle of humiliare (“to abase, humble”), from Latin humilis (“lowly, humble”), from humus (“ground; earth, soil”); see humble.

(transitive, sports, games) To defeat overwhelmingly.


chevalier

From Middle English chivaler or chevaler (also shyvalere while code-switching), from Anglo-Norman chevaler or chivaler, later refashioned after French chevalier, from Late Latin caballārius (“horseman”), from Latin caballus (“horse”). Doublet of caballero and cavalier.

(card games) In tarot cards, the card between the valet and the dame.


chevalier

fro-noun

chevalier oblique singular, m (oblique plural chevaliers, nominative singular chevaliers, nominative plural chevalier)

chevalier oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
chevaliers (oblique plural)
chevaliers (nominative singular)
chevalier (nominative plural)

Middle French: chevalier

French: chevalier

Norman: quevalier

Picard: cvalier

Bourguignon: chevaulei

desctree

→ Middle English: chivaler, chevaler, chevalere, chevalier, chevaller, chevelere, chyvaler, chyvalour
English: chevalier (remodelled after modern French)

From Late Latin caballārius, from Latin caballus. Compare Old Occitan cavalier.


in the dark

(poker slang) Without looking at one's hole cards, thus not knowing what they are.


beatitude

en-noun

beatitude (countable and uncountable, plural beatitudes)

From Middle English beatitude, beatytude, from Middle French béatitude, from Latin beātitūdō (“happiness, blessedness”), from beātus (“happy, blessed”).

der

(gaming) The state of an item being cursed, blessed, or neither.


tip one's hand

en-verb

tip one's hand (third-person singular simple present tips one's hand, present participle tipping one's hand, simple past and past participle tipped one's hand)

tips one's hand (present singular third-person)
tipping one's hand (participle present)
tipped one's hand (participle past)
tipped one's hand (past)

(card games) In card playing, to accidentally reveal one's cards or hand.


suerte

→ Bikol Central: suwerte

→ Cebuano: swerte

→ Tagalog: swerte

Inherited from Old Spanish suerte, from Latin sortem, from Proto-Italic *sortis, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”). Compare Portuguese sorte, Galician sorte.


whiff

whiff (third-person singular simple present whiffs, present participle whiffing, simple past and past participle whiffed)

whiffs (present singular third-person)
whiffing (participle present)
whiffed (participle past)
whiffed (past)

The noun is possibly:
* partly a variant of Middle English wef, weffe (“bad smell, stench, stink; exhalation; vapour; tendency of something to go bad (?)”) [and other forms], possibly a variant of either:
** waf, waif, waife (“odour, scent”), possibly from waven (“to move to and fro, sway, wave; to stray, wander; to move in a weaving manner; (figuratively) to hesitate, vacillate”), from Old English wafian (“to wave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”); or
** wef (“a blow, stroke”), from weven (“to travel, wander; to move to and fro, flutter, waver; to blow something away, waft; to cause something to move; to fall; to cut deeply; to sever; to give up, yield; to give deference to; to avoid; to afflict, trouble; to beckon, signal”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Old English wefan (“to weave”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”)), or from wǣfan (see bewǣfan, ymbwǣfan); and
* partly onomatopoeic.
Noun sense 6 (“name of a number of flatfish”) is possibly derived from sense 1 (“brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air”), sense 4 (“small quantity of cloud, smoke, vapour, etc.”), and other such senses.
The verb and adjective are derived from the noun. Verb sense 2.6 (“to catch fish by dragging a handline near the surface of the water from a moving boat”) is possibly derived from sense 1.1 (“to carry or convey (something) by, or as by, a whiff or puff of air”), sense 2.2 (“to be carried, or move as if carried, by a puff of air”), and other such senses.
The interjection is derived from noun sense 7.4 (“a sound like that of air passing through a small opening; a short or soft whistle”).

inh

(video games) In fighting games, to execute a move that fails to hit the opponent.


matt

mati (genitive)
matti (partitive)
matt (nominative singular)
matid (nominative plural)
matt (accusative nominative singular)
matid (accusative nominative plural)
mati (accusative genitive singular)
matid (accusative genitive plural)
mati (genitive singular)
mattide (genitive plural)
matti (partitive singular)
matte (partitive plural)
mattisid (partitive plural)
matti (illative singular)
matisse (illative singular)
mattidesse (illative plural)
matesse (illative plural)
matis (inessive singular)
mattides (inessive plural)
mates (inessive plural)
matist (elative singular)
mattidest (elative plural)
matest (elative plural)
matile (allative singular)
mattidele (allative plural)
matele (allative plural)
matil (adessive singular)
mattidel (adessive plural)
matel (adessive plural)
matilt (ablative singular)
mattidelt (ablative plural)
matelt (ablative plural)
matiks (singular translative)
mattideks (plural translative)
mateks (plural translative)
matini (singular terminative)
mattideni (plural terminative)
matina (essive singular)
mattidena (essive plural)
matita (abessive singular)
mattideta (abessive plural)
matiga (comitative singular)
mattidega (comitative plural)

Ultimately from Persian شاه مات (šâh mât).


matt

head

matt (neuter singular matt, definite singular and plural matte, comparative mattere, indefinite superlative mattest, definite superlative matteste)

matt (neuter singular)
matte (definite plural singular)
mattere (comparative)
mattest (indefinite superlative)
matteste (definite superlative)


matt

matt (neuter singular matt, definite singular and plural matte, comparative mattare, indefinite superlative mattast, definite superlative mattaste)

matt (neuter singular)
matte (definite plural singular)
mattare (comparative)
mattast (indefinite superlative)
mattaste (definite superlative)


matt

matt (comparative mattare, superlative mattast)

mattare (comparative)
mattast (superlative)
matt (indefinite positive)
mattare (comparative indefinite)
mattast (indefinite superlative)
matt (indefinite neuter positive singular)
mattare (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
mattast (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
matta (indefinite plural positive)
mattare (comparative indefinite plural)
mattast (indefinite plural superlative)
matte (archaic indefinite masculine plural positive)
mattare (archaic comparative indefinite masculine plural)
mattast (archaic indefinite masculine plural superlative)
matte (definite masculine positive singular)
mattare (comparative definite masculine singular)
mattaste (definite masculine singular superlative)
matta (definite positive)
mattare (comparative definite)
mattaste (definite superlative)

(chess) checkmate, in the phrase göra någon matt


cowgirl

(card games, slang) A playing card of queen rank.


widow

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English widwe, from Old English widuwe, from Proto-West Germanic *widuwā, from Proto-Germanic *widuwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂, possibly from *h₁weydʰh₁-, *widʰ- (“to separate, split, cleave, divide”), whence also wood from Old English widu, wudu.
Cognates include German Witwe, Dutch weduwe, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐍉 (widuwō), Old Irish fedb, Latin vidua, Old Church Slavonic въдова (vŭdova), Sanskrit विधवा (vidhavā) and Persian بیوه (bive, bêva), Middle Persian wēwag, Avestan viðavā- "widow" .

(card games) An additional hand of cards dealt face down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.


razz

(poker) A version of seven-card stud where the worst poker hand wins (called lowball).


free-for-all

/ˈfɹiːfəɹɔːl/

/ˈfɹiːfɚɔːl/

(video games) Deathmatch, sometimes specifically one in which every player is pitted against all the others.


bump

en-noun

bump (countable and uncountable, plural bumps)

From Early Modern English bump (“a shock, blow from a collision”), probably of North Germanic origin; compare Danish bump (“a thump”), Danish bumpe (“to thump”), Old Danish bumpe (“to strike with a clenched fist”), all probably of imitative origin.
Apparently related to Middle English bumben, bummen (“to make a hollow noise”), Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”), German Low German bumsen (“to bump, push”), German bummen (“to hum, buzz”), Icelandic bumba (“drum”). More at bum, bumble. Compare also bomb.

onom

imitative

cog

(snooker, slang) The jaw of either of the middle pockets.

(card games) In the game of khanhoo, the act of claiming a newly discarded card when it is not one's turn, permitted when one can use the card to form a meld other than a sequence.


bump

en-verb

bump (third-person singular simple present bumps, present participle bumping, simple past and past participle bumped)

bumps (present singular third-person)
bumping (participle present)
bumped (participle past)
bumped (past)
Lighter (canonical)
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page 24 (canonical)

onom

imitative

(card games) In the game of khanhoo, to claim a newly discarded card when it is not one's turn, permitted when one can use the card to form a meld other than a sequence.


unblock

en-verb

unblock (third-person singular simple present unblocks, present participle unblocking, simple past and past participle unblocked)

unblocks (present singular third-person)
unblocking (participle present)
unblocked (participle past)
unblocked (past)

(intransitive, card games) In whist, to throw away a high card so as not to interrupt one's partner's long suit.


king's pawn

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-king's pawn.wav

(chess) A pawn on the E file, where the kings start the game.