prestige

en-verb

prestige (third-person singular simple present prestiges, present participle prestiging, simple past and past participle prestiged)

prestiges (present singular third-person)
prestiging (participle present)
prestiged (participle past)
prestiged (past)

From French prestige (“illusion, fascination, enchantment, prestige”), from Latin praestīgium (“a delusion, an illusion”). Despite the phonetic similarities and the old meaning of “delusion, illusion, trick”, the word has a different root than prestidigitator (“conjurer”) and prestidigitation.

der

This seriously depends on the prerequisites, but most chars will already have a +1 bow by the time they're thinking of prestiging - or will this stack with the equipment's magic?

2002 July 15, Mark Green, “help in creating prestige class: Sharpshooter”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet):

I'm going to try to stop and move onto a different game once I've prestiged, but the credits/equipment buying arrangement will make prestiging much less of a crippling shock than in previous games, so I may well be stuck playing it for a long time to come.

2010 December 3, Chris Stevens, “PWG 20101203 - The deja double”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet):

However, Treyarch crafts a narrative of leveling up when a player attempts to prestige. The player is stripped of most un-lockable game features and must re-earn them with the ability to repeat this process 15 times. Prestiging allows the empty narrative of online multiplayer first person shooters to continue on a much grander scale.

2013, Brent Kice, “Perceptions of Control: Open World Formats v. Online Multiplayer First Person Shooters”, in Matthew Wysocki, editor, Ctrl-Alt-Play: Essays on Control in Video Gaming, McFarland & Company, page 154:

Reached level 50 and prestiged which I have never had the inclination to do in any game before.

2014 April 1, Man of Kent, “Monday, innit”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet):

Prestiging itself is a concept popularized by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, where players can reset their in-game progress after reaching the maximum experience level, and receive a cosmetic token in exchange.

2018, Adam Kramarzewski, Ennio De Nucci, Practical Game Design, Packt, page 420:

(video games) To start over at an earlier point in a video game with some type of bonus or reward.


farm

en-verb

farm (third-person singular simple present farms, present participle farming, simple past and past participle farmed)

farms (present singular third-person)
farming (participle present)
farmed (participle past)
farmed (past)

From Middle English fermen, from Anglo-Norman fermer (“to let out for a fixed payment, lease, rent”) ultimately from the same Old English source as Etymology 1. Compare Old English feormian (“to feed, supply with food, sustain”).

cog

When you hit a black pudding with an iron weapon that does at least one point of damage there is a good chance it will divide into two black puddings of the same size (but half the hit points IIRC). […] When eaten black puddings confer several intrinsics so AC [armor class] is not the only potential benefit. […] Since black puddings are formidible^([sic]) monsters for an inexperienced character, farming is also a good way to die.

2004, Doug Freyburger, “Pudding Farming Requires Care”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):

The practice of gold farming is controversial within gaming communities and violates the end user licensing agreements[…]

2010, Robert Alan Brookey, Hollywood Gamers, page 130:

(Internet slang, originally online gaming) To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.


skin

en-noun

skin (countable and uncountable, plural skins)

From Middle English skyn, skinn, from Old English scinn, from Old Norse skinn (“animal hide”), from Proto-Germanic *skinþą, from Proto-Indo-European *sken- (“to split off”), nasal variant of *skeh₁i-d- (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English hȳd (“skin, hide”), from which derives hide. Unrelated to shin.
Cognate with Dutch schinde (“bark”), dialectal German Schinde (“fruit peel”); also Breton skant (“scales”), Old Irish ceinn, Irish scainim (“I tear, burst”), Latin scindere (“to split, divide”), Sanskrit छिनत्ति (chinátti, “he splits”).

hinasuna

outer protective layer of the body of a person or animal

don't sell the skin till you have caught the bear

(countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.

skini

alternate appearance for a 3D character model in a video game


skin

(countable, video games) skin (alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a 3D character model in a video game)


whore

en-verb

whore (third-person singular simple present whores, present participle whoring, simple past and past participle whored)

whores (present singular third-person)
whoring (participle present)
whored (participle past)
whored (past)

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

non-rhotic, dough-door merger, African-American Vernacular

nonstandard but traditional, several locations

(North American)

From Middle English hore, from Old English hōre, from Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros (“loved”), from *keh₂- (“to wish; desire”). Cognate with Latin cārus, Polish kurwa, German Hure. The initial wh- is unetymological.

BTW, that guy whuz still an asshole - camping the BFG and whoring the quad - I usually leave BFG maps but stuck around on that one and suicided quite a bit (3 times I got to about -10 frags, then came back to 0...).

(transitive, slang, video games, vulgar, derogatory) To overuse something.


main

From Middle English mayn, main, maine, mæine, mæȝen, from Old English mæġen (“strength”), from Proto-Germanic *maginą (“strength, power, might”), *maginaz (“strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *megʰ- (“be able”).
The word is cognate with Old High German magen, megin, Old Norse magn, megn, megin, Old Saxon megin. More recent senses are derived from the adjective.

inh

My WoW main has reached level cap and I’m on my way getting my first alt there as well.

(not in generic modern use) That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross.

(video games) The primary character that one plays in a video game in which one can play more than one character.


log

en-verb

log (third-person singular simple present logs, present participle logging, simple past and past participle logged)

logs (present singular third-person)
logging (participle present)
logged (participle past)
logged (past)

Ellipsis of log out, itself from Etymology 2.

You only won that game because your last opponent logged. That's no fair!

(video games) To log out; to disconnect from an online video game.


sheet

From Middle English schete; partly from Old English sċīete (“a sheet, a piece of linen cloth”); partly from Old English sċēata (“a corner, angle; the lower corner of a sail, sheet”); and Old English sċēat (“a corner, angle”); all from Proto-Germanic *skautijǭ, *skautaz (“corner, wedge, lap”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to throw, shoot, pursue, rush”).
Cognate with North Frisian skut (“the fold of a garment, lap, coattail”), West Frisian skoat (“sheet; sail; lap”), Dutch schoot (“the fold of a garment, lap, sheet”), German Low German Schote (“a line from the foot of a sail”), German Schoß (“the fold of a garment, lap”), Swedish sköt (“sheet”), Icelandic skaut (“the corner of a cloth, a line from the foot of a sail, the skirt or sleeve of a garment, a hood”).

cog

The gecko moves from left to right and you must catch him when he calls. […] On the second sheet you must stand under the Gecko in the tree and jump, and on the third sheet you must catch the Gecko's friend.

1983, "Program Printout: Gecko" (in Sinclair User, issue 21, page 95)

If you land safely you will gain 30 extra points and move to the next sheet.

What distinguishes Eskimo Eddie from the others is that it has two totally different sheets in the game. […] In the first sheet, Frogger style, you have to rescue Percy penguin from Growler the bear.

1984, Chris Passey, Matthew Uffindell, “Run It Again”, in Crash, number 4:

(video games, dated) A distinct level or stage within a game.


abandonware

en-noun

abandonware (countable and uncountable, plural abandonwares)

→ Polish: abandonware

RR> Never heard of Wildscan. Is it shareware or is there a^([sic]) evaluation
RR> version available?
It's abandonware ala Joe Martin inc.:)

1996 October 12, John Hentsch, “Re: Converting file areas (one more time)”, in alt.bbs.wildcat (Usenet), retrieved 2017-02-08, message-ID <ff1_9610122110@mb.fidonet.org>:

Abandonware is software that is no longer being sold or supported by its author, copyright owner, or licensed distributor. Software that is still being sold, but no longer supported, is sometimes also referred to as abandonware.

2014, Aaron Schwabach, Internet and the Law: Technology, Society, and Compromises, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 1:

(software, chiefly video games) A software product that is no longer updated or maintained, or whose copyright is no longer defended or which is no longer marketed even by the company who made it.

programari descatalogat

software which has been abandoned by its developer


abandonware

abandonware (nominative singular)
abandonware'u (genitive singular)
abandonware'owi (dative singular)
abandonware (accusative singular)
abandonware'em (instrumental singular)
abandonwarze (locative singular)
abandonwarze (singular vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English abandonware. First attested in 2000.

ref

Pęzik, Piotr, Przepiórkowski, A., Bańko, M., Górski, R., Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B (2012) Wyszukiwarka PELCRA dla danych NKJP. Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego [National Polish Language Corpus, PELCRA search engine], Wydawnictwo PWN

[…], a które to cechy ewentualnie umożliwiałyby kwalifikację danego programu komputerowego do kategorii abandonware.

2019, Łukasz Koźbiał, “ABANDONWARE W ŚWIETLE PRAWA AUTORSKIEGO – UWAGI OGÓLNE”, in Małgorzata Babula, archived from the original on 2023-01-20:

[…], which traits could potentially allow for the possibility to qualify the given program as abandonware.

(software) abandonware (software product that is no longer updated or maintained, or whose copyright is no longer defended or which is no longer marketed even by the company who made it)


mode

From Old French mode (masculine), from Latin modus (“measure, due measure, rhythm, melody”). Doublet of modus.

tila

mathematics, physics: state of a system represented by an eigenfunction of that system

Campaign mode (the career mode that includes the notorious Gran Turismo driving school) is off limits while offline. Also unavailable offline: buying new cars, viewing your garage, editing car liveries, and even the "taking photos of fancy cars in exotic scenery" mode.

2017 October 17, Jonathan M. Gitlin, “Gran Turismo Sport is extremely limited in offline mode”, in Ars Technica:

I've stumbled over gaming's simplest hurdles, been humiliated by the lowliest of enemies and will often go for an easy mode if one's available, and yet I've run through Bloodborne twice without ever really breaking much of a sweat.

2018 March 6, Martin Robinson, “Dispelling the myths of Bloodborne”, in Eurogamer:

Selfie modes, meanwhile, let you add filters and change characters’ facial expressions, from Link in The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker to Arthur Morgan in Red Dead Redemption 2.

2019 February 25, Jordan Erica Webber, “Point and shoot: what's next for photography in video games?”, in The Guardian:

(video games) A variation in gameplay, such as a difficulty level.


scum

en-verb

scum (third-person singular simple present scums, present participle scumming, simple past and past participle scummed)

scums (present singular third-person)
scumming (participle present)
scummed (participle past)
scummed (past)

From Middle English scum, scome, skum, skome, scumme, from Middle Dutch schūme (“foam”), from Proto-Germanic *skūmaz (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover, conceal”). Cognate with Dutch schuim (“foam”), West Frisian skuum, German Schaum (“foam”), Danish and Swedish skum (“foam”). Compare also French écume (“scum”), Italian schiuma (“foam”), Saterland Frisian Skuum, Sicilian scuma (“foam”), Walloon schome (“scum, foam”), Lithuanian šamas (“catfish”) and skanus (“tasty”) from the same Germanic source. Related to skim.

der

(video games, informal) To startscum or savescum.


cart

My Final Fantasy cart on the NES is still alive and kicking.

(computing, video games, informal) A cartridge for a computer or video game system.


arch

From the prefix arch-. "Principal" is the original sense; "mischievous" is via onetime frequent collocation with rogue, knave, etc.

(video games) Synonym of god (“person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon”)


wipe

en-verb

wipe (third-person singular simple present wipes, present participle wiping, simple past and past participle wiped)

wipes (present singular third-person)
wiping (participle present)
wiped (participle past)
wiped (past)

From wipe out (verb) and wipeout (noun) by shortening.

If you try to fight that boss underprepared, you're definitely gonna wipe.

(intransitive, roleplaying games, video games) To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out.


wipe

(roleplaying games, video games) An instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout.


baas

nl-noun

baas m (plural bazen, diminutive baasje n, feminine bazin)

bazen (plural)
baasje (diminutive neuter)
bazin (feminine)

Afrikaans: baas
→ English: baas

Negerhollands: baas, baes

→ Lokono: basia

→ Aukan: basi

→ Belizean Creole: baas

→ Caribbean Hindustani: bás

→ Caribbean Javanese: bas

desctree

→ English: boss
→ Cantonese: 波士 (bo¹ si⁶⁻²)
→ Danish: boss
→ French: boss
→ Indonesian: bos
→ Italian: boss
→ Japanese: ボス (bosu)
→ Korean: 보스 (boseu)

→ Guyanese Creole English: baas

→ Indonesian: bas (“boss”)

→ Petjo: bas

→ Jamaican Creole: baas

→ Kwinti: basia

→ Papiamentu: bas, baas, ba

→ Saramaccan: bási

→ Sranan Tongo: basi

→ Kari'na: ba`si

→ Trió: paasi

→ West Frisian: baas

Inherited from Middle Dutch baes (“master of a household, friend”), from Old Dutch *baso (“uncle, kinsman”), from Proto-West Germanic *baswō, from Proto-Germanic *baswô. Cognates include Middle Low German bās (“supervisor, foreman”), Old Frisian bas (“master”); possibly also Old High German basa ("father's sister, cousin"; > German Base (“aunt, cousin”)).

gl

"father's sister, cousin"; > German <i class="Latn mention" lang="de">Base</i> (“aunt, cousin”)


ghost

en-noun

ghost (countable and uncountable, plural ghosts)

→ Japanese: ゴースト (gōsuto)

Inherited from Middle English gost, from Old English gāst (which was the word for “spirit” as well as “ghost”; the original sense survives in Modern English Holy Ghost), from Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéysdos, derived from *ǵʰéysd- (“anger, agitation”).
The ⟨h⟩ in the spelling appears in the Prologue to William Caxton's Royal Book, printed in 1484, in a reference to the ‘Holy Ghoost’, likely introduced by Caxton's assistant, Wynkyn de Worde, as a result of Flemish influence, where it was spelled gheest at the time. Doublet of geist.

This is also the case for some racing games (Super Mario Kart is a good example) that allow you to compete against your ghosts, which are precise recordings of your performance.

2012, Keith Burgun, Game Design Theory: A New Philosophy for Understanding Games:

(video games) An opponent in a racing game that follows a previously recorded route, allowing players to compete against previous best times.


adventurer

Meanwhile, the ranks of adventurers grow, be they manic puzzle-solvers or people like me, who like to look under the Robners' beds just for the hell of it.

1983 July, PC Mag, volume 2, number 2, page 351:

It's a challenging game for the inexperienced adventurer, and should even give the hardened pros a bit of a run for their money.

1992, Tim Kemp, Microfair Madness (game review in Your Sinclair issue 75, March 1992)

(video games) A player of adventure games or text adventures.

Thronbewerber

social pretender on the lookout for advancement


imp

(video games, slang) Synonym of god (“person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon”)


SSBM

Super Smash Bros. Melee
w:Super Smash Bros. Melee

(video games) Initialism of Super Smash Bros. Melee.


adventure

adventure (countable and uncountable, plural adventures)

From Middle English aventure, aunter, anter, from Old French aventure, from Vulgar Latin *adventūra, from Latin adventūrus (“about to arrive, (Vulgar Latin) about to happen”), future active participle of adveniō (“to arrive”), which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall" (see also advene).
Compare Scots adventur, Swedish äventyr, German Abenteuer.

der

/ədˈvɛnt͡ʃə/

/ədˈvɛnt͡ʃɚ/

/ædˈvɛnt͡ʃɚ/

The first thing to strike me about Spyplane was that it is more like a verbal simulation than an adventure.

1984 May, “Spyplane”, in Crash, number 4, (review):

To sum up, I think this is definitely one of the best adventures around for the Spectrum now, along with Gnome Ranger[...]

1988 May, Mike Gerrard, “The Guild of Thieves [review]”, in Your Sinclair, number 29, archived from the original on 2013-05-26:

Before you sit down in front of your Speccy to play an adventure, equip yourself with a pencil, eraser and plenty of paper. This so that you may draw a 'map' of the adventure as you move around.

1992 October, Larry Horsfield, “The SU Guide to Playing and Writing Adventure Games”, in Sinclair User, number 128:

(video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.


rent

en-noun

rent (countable and uncountable, plural rents)

From Middle English rent, rente, from Old French rente, from Early Medieval Latin rendita, from Late Latin rendere, from Latin reddere.

(video games) An amount of virtual currency paid by a player to preserve their character, inventory, etc. between gameplay sessions in a multi-user dungeon.


dom

en-verb

dom (third-person singular simple present doms, present participle domming, simple past and past participle dommed)

doms (present singular third-person)
domming (participle present)
dommed (participle past)
dommed (past)

Nola is actually "Nurse Nola," a dominatrix who specializes in medical role playing. […] "After that," she continues, "I started domming, which I did for a long time, but have never liked much."

2006, Bitch: feminist response to pop culture, numbers 31-34:

(slang, online gaming or BDSM) To dominate.


CPU

(video games) Any character or entity controlled by the game software.


expansion

en-noun

expansion (countable and uncountable, plural expansions)

From French expansion, from Latin expānsiō. By surface analysis, expand + -sion.

An act, process, or instance of expanding.


nerf

en-verb

nerf (third-person singular simple present nerfs, present participle nerfing, simple past and past participle nerfed)

nerfs (present singular third-person)
nerfing (participle present)
nerfed (participle past)
nerfed (past)

From the Nerf brand of toys designed as non-dangerous counterparts of existing things, such as sports balls and guns. Originally used to equate a change in the damage of a weapon in a video game to a change from real weapons to Nerf weapons.

The lightning spell was originally pretty powerful, but in the sequel they nerfed it so it became completely useless.

(transitive, slang, video games) To change a mechanic, an ability or a character in a video game in order to make a previously dominant strategy less viable or less effective.


nerf

(slang, video games) The deterioration, weakening or worsening of a character, a weapon, a spell, etc.


first-person

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

(film, television, video games) Visual presentation through the protagonist or principal character's own eyes.


poly

poly (third-person singular simple present polys, present participle polying, simple past and past participle polyed)

polys (present singular third-person)
polying (participle present)
polyed (participle past)
polyed (past)

(transitive, intransitive, video games, roguelikes) To polymorph; to transform by magic.


third person

en-noun

third person (countable and uncountable, plural third persons)

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

(video games) A form of video game in which the graphical view depicts the player character, rather than the view through the character's eyes.


jäädä

jään (first-person indicative present singular)
en jää (first-person indicative negative present singular)
olen jäänyt (first-person indicative perfect singular)
en ole jäänyt (first-person indicative negative perfect singular)
jäät (indicative present second-person singular)
et jää (indicative negative present second-person singular)
olet jäänyt (indicative perfect second-person singular)
et ole jäänyt (indicative negative perfect second-person singular)
jää (indicative present singular third-person)
ei jää (indicative negative present singular third-person)
on jäänyt (indicative perfect singular third-person)
ei ole jäänyt (indicative negative perfect singular third-person)
jäämme (first-person indicative plural present)
emme jää (first-person indicative negative plural present)
olemme jääneet (first-person indicative perfect plural)
emme ole jääneet (first-person indicative negative perfect plural)
jäätte (indicative plural present second-person)
ette jää (indicative negative plural present second-person)
olette jääneet (indicative perfect plural second-person)
ette ole jääneet (indicative negative perfect plural second-person)
jäävät (indicative plural present third-person)
eivät jää (indicative negative plural present third-person)
ovat jääneet (indicative perfect plural third-person)
eivät ole jääneet (indicative negative perfect plural third-person)
jäädään (indicative passive present)
ei jäädä (indicative negative passive present)
on jääty (indicative passive perfect)
ei ole jääty (indicative negative passive perfect)
jäin (first-person indicative past singular)
en jäänyt (first-person indicative negative past singular)
olin jäänyt (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
en ollut jäänyt (first-person indicative negative pluperfect singular)
jäit (indicative past second-person singular)
et jäänyt (indicative negative past second-person singular)
olit jäänyt (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
et ollut jäänyt (indicative negative pluperfect second-person singular)
jäi (indicative past singular third-person)
ei jäänyt (indicative negative past singular third-person)
oli jäänyt (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
ei ollut jäänyt (indicative negative pluperfect singular third-person)
jäimme (first-person indicative past plural)
emme jääneet (first-person indicative negative past plural)
olimme jääneet (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
emme olleet jääneet (first-person indicative negative pluperfect plural)
jäitte (indicative past plural second-person)
ette jääneet (indicative negative past plural second-person)
olitte jääneet (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
ette olleet jääneet (indicative negative pluperfect plural second-person)
jäivät (indicative past plural third-person)
eivät jääneet (indicative negative past plural third-person)
olivat jääneet (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
eivät olleet jääneet (indicative negative pluperfect plural third-person)
jäätiin (indicative passive past)
ei jääty (indicative negative passive past)
oli jääty (indicative passive pluperfect)
ei ollut jääty (indicative negative passive pluperfect)
jäisin (conditional first-person present singular)
en jäisi (conditional first-person negative present singular)
olisin jäänyt (conditional first-person perfect singular)
en olisi jäänyt (conditional first-person negative perfect singular)
jäisit (conditional present second-person singular)
et jäisi (conditional negative present second-person singular)
olisit jäänyt (conditional perfect second-person singular)
et olisi jäänyt (conditional negative perfect second-person singular)
jäisi (conditional present singular third-person)
ei jäisi (conditional negative present singular third-person)
olisi jäänyt (conditional perfect singular third-person)
ei olisi jäänyt (conditional negative perfect singular third-person)
jäisimme (conditional first-person plural present)
emme jäisi (conditional first-person negative plural present)
olisimme jääneet (conditional first-person perfect plural)
emme olisi jääneet (conditional first-person negative perfect plural)
jäisitte (conditional plural present second-person)
ette jäisi (conditional negative plural present second-person)
olisitte jääneet (conditional perfect plural second-person)
ette olisi jääneet (conditional negative perfect plural second-person)
jäisivät (conditional plural present third-person)
eivät jäisi (conditional negative plural present third-person)
olisivat jääneet (conditional perfect plural third-person)
eivät olisi jääneet (conditional negative perfect plural third-person)
jäätäisiin (conditional passive present)
ei jäätäisi (conditional negative passive present)
olisi jääty (conditional passive perfect)
ei olisi jääty (conditional negative passive perfect)
jää (imperative present second-person singular)
älä jää (imperative negative present second-person singular)
jääköön (imperative present singular third-person)
älköön jääkö (imperative negative present singular third-person)
olkoon jäänyt (imperative perfect singular third-person)
älköön olko jäänyt (imperative negative perfect singular third-person)
jääkäämme (first-person imperative plural present)
älkäämme jääkö (first-person imperative negative plural present)
jääkää (imperative plural present second-person)
älkää jääkö (imperative negative plural present second-person)
jääkööt (imperative plural present third-person)
älkööt jääkö (imperative negative plural present third-person)
olkoot jääneet (imperative perfect plural third-person)
älkööt olko jääneet (imperative negative perfect plural third-person)
jäätäköön (imperative passive present)
älköön jäätäkö (imperative negative passive present)
olkoon jääty (imperative passive perfect)
älköön olko jääty (imperative negative passive perfect)
jäänen (first-person potential present singular)
en jääne (first-person negative potential present singular)
lienen jäänyt (first-person perfect potential singular)
en liene jäänyt (first-person negative perfect potential singular)
jäänet (potential present second-person singular)
et jääne (negative potential present second-person singular)
lienet jäänyt (perfect potential second-person singular)
et liene jäänyt (negative perfect potential second-person singular)
jäänee (potential present singular third-person)
ei jääne (negative potential present singular third-person)
lienee jäänyt (perfect potential singular third-person)
ei liene jäänyt (negative perfect potential singular third-person)
jäänemme (first-person plural potential present)
emme jääne (first-person negative plural potential present)
lienemme jääneet (first-person perfect plural potential)
emme liene jääneet (first-person negative perfect plural potential)
jäänette (plural potential present second-person)
ette jääne (negative plural potential present second-person)
lienette jääneet (perfect plural potential second-person)
ette liene jääneet (negative perfect plural potential second-person)
jäänevät (plural potential present third-person)
eivät jääne (negative plural potential present third-person)
lienevät jääneet (perfect plural potential third-person)
eivät liene jääneet (negative perfect plural potential third-person)
jäätäneen (passive potential present)
ei jäätäne (negative passive potential present)
lienee jääty (passive perfect potential)
ei liene jääty (negative passive perfect potential)
jäädä (infinitive infinitive-i)
jäävä (active participle present)
jäätävä (participle passive present)
jäädäkseni (first-person possessive singular)
jäädäksemme (first-person plural possessive)
jäädäksesi (possessive second-person singular)
jäädäksenne (plural possessive second-person)
jäädäkseen (possessive third-person)
jäädäksensä (possessive third-person)
jäänyt (infinitive-i-long past)
jääty (infinitive-i-long past)
jäädessä (inessive second-person)
jäätäessä (inessive second-person)
jäämä (agent)
jäädessäni (first-person possessive singular)
jäädessämme (first-person plural possessive)
jäädessäsi (possessive second-person singular)
jäädessänne (plural possessive second-person)
jäädessään (possessive third-person)
jäädessänsä (possessive third-person)
jäämätön (inessive negative second-person)
jääden (instructive second-person)
jäämässä (inessive third-person)
jäämästä (elative third-person)
jäämään (illative third-person)
jäämällä (adessive third-person)
jäämättä (abessive third-person)
jäämän (instructive third-person)
jäätämän (instructive third-person)
jääminen (fourth-person noun-from-verb)
jäämäisilläni (first-person possessive singular)
jäämäisillämme (first-person plural possessive)
jäämäisilläsi (possessive second-person singular)
jäämäisillänne (plural possessive second-person)
jäämäisillään (possessive third-person)
jäämäisillänsä (possessive third-person)

From Proto-Finnic *jäädäk. Cognate to Estonian jääma and Karelian jeähä.

jäädä eläkkeelle

to retire (stop working on a permanent basis)

yks jäi, toinen jäi, ai, mä jäin.


theme

-iːmi (for the sense dealing with the Byzantine empire only)

From Middle English teme, from Old French teme, tesme (French thème), from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma), from τίθημι (títhēmi, “I put, place”), reduplicative from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, do”) (whence also English do). Doublet of thema.

Theme

computing: collection of color schemes, sounds, artwork etc.

(film, television, video games) A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.


PSP

en-noun

PSP (countable and uncountable, plural PSPs)

PlayStation Portable
w:PlayStation Portable

(video games) Initialism of PlayStation Portable.


trainer

→ Cebuano: trainor
→ English: trainor

I actually never got a trainer for RCT, but needed one for my brother when I installed it on his computer. He is 10, and is only concerned with making "cool" coasters. I also completed CF before getting trainers.

2000, Phil, “I need trainer for version 1.10.021”, in alt.games.rctycoon (Usenet):

Are there any sites that have original copies of games? (ie: Summer/Winter/World Games with Fast Loading). Just looking for games without the trainers/intros.

2001, LJames4728, “Good C64 Game Sites?”, in alt.c64 (Usenet):

(video games, slang) A patch for a video game that applies cheats.


enemy

From Middle English enemy, enemye, enmy, borrowed from Old French enemi, anemi (Modern French ennemi), from Latin inimīcus, from in- (“not”) + amīcus (“friend”). Displaced Middle English feend (“enemy”), from Old English fēond (“enemy”), which survived into Modern English as fiend, but with a different meaning.

let the perfect be the enemy of the good

non-player character
non-player character

(video games) A non-player character that tries to harm the player.


tech

en-verb

tech (third-person singular simple present techs, present participle teching, simple past and past participle teched)

techs (present singular third-person)
teching (participle present)
teched (participle past)
teched (past)

Clipping of technology, technician, and technique.

(video games) To perform a technical (a special move in fighting games that cancels out an opposing attack).


runner

From Middle English rennere, rynner, urnare, equivalent to run + -er. Cognate with Old Norse rennari (“runner; messenger”). Displaced earlier Middle English runel (“runner”), from Old English rynel (“runner”; also “messenger, courier”).

махови́к

mechanical part intended to guide or aid something else to move

A leaping food fish (Elagatis pinnulatis) of Florida and the West Indies; the skipjack, shoemaker, or yellowtail.


health

en-noun

health (usually uncountable, plural healths)

Inherited from Middle English helthe, from Old English hǣlþ, from Proto-West Germanic *hailiþu, from Proto-Germanic *hailiþō, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, hale”). Cognate with Old High German heilida. Analyzable as whole + -th, hale + -th, or heal + -th. More at heal. Doublet of wholth.

The enemies on this level have a lot of health.

Lose a little health and there's a few seconds in which you'll be able to win it back by ragging on an enemy.

(video games) The amount of damage an in-game object can withstand before it is destroyed.

кръв

(video games) amount of damage an in-game object can withstand


gameplay

gameplay (usually uncountable, plural gameplays)

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The totality of player experiences during a game, such as the gaming environment and the competitive interaction with other players; often with reference to a video game or a board game.


computer game

An electronic game, especially a game played using a general-purpose computer (as opposed to a game console).


infinite

From Middle English infinite, from Old French infinit and Latin infīnītus, from in- (“not”) + fīnis (“end”) + the perfect passive participle ending -itus. Doublet of infinito. Displaced native Old English unġeendodlīċ.

[…] prevents overpowered combos and infinites […]

2007, Adam Deats, Joe Epstein, Virtua Fighter 5, page 14:

(video games) A combo that can be used repeatedly without interruption.


game console

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drop

From Late Middle English droppe, Middle English drope (“small quantity of liquid; small or least amount of something; pendant jewel; dripping of a liquid; a shower; nasal flow, catarrh; speck, spot; blemish; disease causing spots on the skin”) [and other forms], from Old English dropa (“a drop”), from Proto-West Germanic *dropō (“drop (of liquid)”), from Proto-Germanic *drupô (“drop (of liquid)”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewb- (“to crumble, grind”).

nb...

dropan, droupe, (Northern England) droipe

afval

small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension

piisk

very small quantity of liquid, or of anything

piisk

that which hangs or resembles a liquid globule

pudotettu esine

(online gaming, video games) item dropped by a defeated enemy

langemine

decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate

afgrond

distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level

(online gaming, video games) An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.


role-playing video game

en-noun

role-playing video game (plural role-playing video games)

(video games) A genre of video game that uses gameplay elements found in a paper-and-pencil role-playing game, such as character classes and leveling up.


gamer

→ Bulgarian: геймър (gejmǎr)

→ Danish: gamer

→ Dutch: gamer

→ French: gamer

→ Georgian: გეიმერი (geimeri)

→ German: Gamer

desc

→ Gulf Arabic: قيمر (gēmar), گيمر (gēmar)

→ Japanese: ゲーマー (gēmā)

→ Korean: 게이머 (geimeo)

→ Macedonian: ге́јмер (géjmer)

→ Persian: گیمر (geymer)

→ Portuguese: gamer, guêimer

→ Russian: ге́ймер (géjmer)

→ Spanish: gamer

→ Swedish: gamer

→ Ukrainian: ге́ймер (héjmer), ґе́ймер (géjmer)

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *gamaną
Proto-West Germanic *gaman
Old English gamen
Middle English game
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -er
Middle English gamer
English gamer
From Middle English gamer, attested since before 1450 as a common noun and possibly since 1248 in the name of one Johannes le Gamer. Equivalent to game (noun) + -er (occupational suffix).

etymon

That the Parliament congratulates the online gamer, Harry Brewis, who is known by the handle HBomberGuy, […]

2019, The Scottish Parliament, Motion S5M-15504 https://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx?SearchType=Advance&ReferenceNumbers=S5M-15504&ResultsPerPage=10

A person who plays any kind of game.
A person whose hobby is video games.


gamer

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *gamaną
Proto-West Germanic *gaman
Old English gamen
Middle English game
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -er
Middle English gamer
English gamerbor.
Portuguese gamer
Unadapted borrowing from English gamer.


stage

→ Japanese: ステージ (sutēji)

From Middle English stage, from Old French estage (“dwelling, residence; position, situation, condition”), from Old French ester (“to be standing, be located”). Cognate with Old English stæþþan (“to make staid, stay”), Old Norse steðja (“to place, provide, confirm, allow”), Old English stæde, stede (“state, status, standing, place, station, site”). More at stead. Doublet of étage.

cog

How do you get past the flying creatures in the third stage?

(video games) A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game.


hat

Sranan Tongo: ati

From Middle English hat, from Old English hætt, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz (“hat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to guard, cover, care for, protect”). Cognate with North Frisian hat (“hat”), Danish hat (“hat”), Swedish hatt (“hat”), Icelandic hattur (“hat”), Finnish hattu (“hat”), Latin cassis (“helmet”), Lithuanian kudas (“bird's crest or tuft”), Avestan 𐬑𐬀𐬊𐬛𐬀 (xaoda, “hat”), Persian خود (xud, “helmet”), Welsh cadw (“to provide for, ensure”). Compare also hood.

cog

The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats, and balls.

2002, Ernest Pazera, Focus on SDL, page 139:


frag

I'd been fighting him for ages, and then you stole my frag!

Oh, man. Did you play Online Gaming last night? No, yeah, no? I did. I got so many frags.

2004 August 16, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #111: other days”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Homestar Runner (Matthew Chapman):

(video games, slang) A successful kill in a deathmatch game. A point or score (when considered collectively) gained by successfully killing opponents in a deathmatch game.


frag

en-verb

frag (third-person singular simple present frags, present participle fragging, simple past and past participle fragged)

frags (present singular third-person)
fragging (participle present)
fragged (participle past)
fragged (past)

I fragged him once and then meleed him for the kill.

(transitive, military and video games, slang) To hit with the explosion of a fragmentation grenade.

I fragged him but he fell off the ledge afterwards.

I have pistol-fragged far superior players coming at me with a shotgun with 100% health.

1996, Martin Cox, “Stupid frags ...”, in rec.games.computer.doom.playing (Usenet):

tappaa

to kill (another player) in a deathmatch computer game


cab

(video games, informal) An arcade cabinet, the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.


bonus

en-noun

bonus (plural bonuses or bonusses or (nonstandard) boni)

bonuses (plural)
bonusses (plural)
boni (nonstandard plural)

→ Danish: bonus

→ French: bonus

→ German: Bonus

→ Portuguese: bónus, bônus (Brazil)

→ Japanese: ボーナス (bōnasu)

→ Turkish: bonus

Borrowed from Latin bonus (“good”). Doublet of bona.

Spend the time killing things and there's a bonus for each hit - but only for fatalities notched up since the start of your current life.

1988, David Powell, Rygar (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 25

(video games) An addition to the player's score based on performance, e.g. for time remaining.


gib

first-person shooter
first-person shooter

(video games) Miscellaneous pieces of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.


gib

en-verb

gib (third-person singular simple present gibs, present participle gibbing, simple past and past participle gibbed)

gibs (present singular third-person)
gibbing (participle present)
gibbed (participle past)
gibbed (past)

(transitive, video games) To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs.


kit

en-noun

kit (countable and uncountable, plural kits)

From Middle English kyt, kytt, kytte, from Middle Dutch kitte (“a wooden vessel made of hooped staves”). Related to Dutch kit (“tankard”) (see below). The further etymology is unknown. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *kitjō-, *kut-, which would be related to the root of Dutch kot (“ramshackle house”), itself of non-Indo-European origin.
The transfer of meaning to the contents of a soldier's knapsack dates to the late 18th century, extended use of any collection of necessaries used for travelling dates to the first half of the 19th century.
The further widening of the sense to a collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble emerges in US English in the mid 20th century.

der

(video games) The set of skills and abilities chosen for a playable character.


off

Coordinate term: on

ich muss gleich off gehen

(Internet slang, especially video games) Clipping of offline.


spawn

en-verb

spawn (third-person singular simple present spawns, present participle spawning, simple past and past participle spawned)

spawns (present singular third-person)
spawning (participle present)
spawned (participle past)
spawned (past)

Recorded since 1413; from Middle English spawnen, from Anglo-Norman espaundre, from Old French espandre, from Latin expandere (“stretch out; spread out”, verb). Doublet of expand. Compare also Middle English spalden, spolden, spawden (“to cut open (a fish)”).

der

We put down torches to stop creepers from spawning.

(ergative, video games) To appear, or cause (something or someone) to appear, spontaneously in a game world at a particular place and time.

生成

to appear spontaneously in a game at a certain point and time


spawn

en-noun

spawn (countable and uncountable, plural spawn or spawns)

From Middle English spawne, from the verb (see above).

потомък

any germ or seed, even a figurative source; offspring


delete

en-verb

delete (third-person singular simple present deletes, present participle deleting, simple past and past participle deleted)

deletes (present singular third-person)
deleting (participle present)
deleted (participle past)
deleted (past)

→ Portuguese: deletar, delete

From Latin dēlētus, past participle of dēlēre (“destroy, blot out, efface”), from dēlēvī, originally perf. tense of dēlinere (“to daub, erase by smudging”), from dē- (“from, away”) + linere (“to smear, wipe”). Original sense first appears c. 1495. In common use for ordering the absence of features of products (such as automobiles) in the 1960s. Computing sense, including the noun form, first appears c. 1977 in Software: Practice & Experience. Not related to deleterious.

Also I got deleted by a rogue and druid who were both invisible and just popped up and cleaned me.

2020 November 20, “Enhance Arena positioning”, in Blizzard Forums (US):

(online gaming, slang) To defeat or dominate.


cap

cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past and past participle capped)

caps (present singular third-person)
capping (participle present)
capped (participle past)
capped (past)

Call your friends and bring a gun / The Halo revolution's on / Capping flags and arming bombs / Yes, we don't blink until we're done

2007 November 20, Greg Haupt, “LvUrFR3NZ”, in Halo 3 Original Soundtrack, performed by Princeton, Sumthing Else Music Works:

(transitive, video games) To capture an objective, such as a flag or checkpoint.


wave

From Middle English *wave, partially from waven (“to fluctuate, wave”) (see above) and partially from Middle English wawe, waghe (“wave”), from Old English wǣg (“a wave, billow, motion, water, flood, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *wēgaz (“motion, storm, wave”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to drag, carry”). Cognate with North Frisian weage (“wave, flood, sea”), German Woge (“wave”), French vague (“wave”) (from Germanic), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌲𐍃 (wēgs, “a wave”). See also waw.

cog

As the player eliminates each wave of 55 aliens, the next wave begins lower than the one previous.

2011, Raffaele Cecco, Supercharged JavaScript Graphics: With HTML5 Canvas and jQuery:

(video games, by extension) One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.


badge

→ Japanese: バッジ (bajji)

→ Korean: 배지 (baeji)

From Middle English badge, bagge, bage, bagy, from Anglo-Norman bage or Medieval Latin bagea, bagia (“sign, emblem”), of uncertain origin. Possibly derived from Medieval Latin baga (“ring”), from Old Saxon bāg, bōg (“ring, ornament”), from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring, bracelet, armband”); or possibly the Anglo-Norman word is derived from an earlier, unattested English word (compare Old English bēag (“ring, bracelet, collar, crown”). Cognate with Scots bagie, badgie, bawgy (“badge”).

cog

When you have checked in to the site from ten different cities, you unlock the Traveller badge.

(Internet, video games) An icon or emblem awarded to a user for some achievement.


SOB

en-noun

SOB (countable and uncountable, plural SOBs)

(speedrunning) Initialism of sum of best.


clan

→ Catalan: clan

→ Danish: klan

→ Dutch: clan

→ French: clan
→ Turkish: klan

→ Galician: clan

→ German: Clan

→ Italian: clan

→ Norwegian Bokmål: klan

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: klan

→ Polish: klan

→ Russian: клан (klan)

→ Portuguese: clan, clã

→ Spanish: clan

→ Swedish: klan

Borrowed from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, borrowed from Old Welsh plant, itself borrowed from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of plant and planta.

отог

group of relatives with some degree of political organization

(video games) A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.


GBA

(video games) Initialism of Game Boy Advance.


tycoon

Borrowed from Japanese 大君(たいくん) (taikun, “great lord, prince”), a title for the shōgun. Related to taipan, from Cantonese 大班 (daai⁶ baan¹). The game sense was derived from the use of tycoon in titles of games in which one plays a tycoon (e.g., RollerCoaster Tycoon; cf. Street Fighter and later fighter (“game with a focus on physical combat”)).

Chairman Yu is a tycoon who owns multiple hotel chains.

Dagobert had only one customer, an American who wore square, rimless glasses and a beige suit and looked like a Wall Street tycoon.

1956, Delano Ames, chapter 24, in Crime out of Mind:

Tycoons / A game in which users build up some sort of business by earning money over time and then using that money on upgrades.

2013, Brandon LaRouche, Intermediate ROBLOX Lua Programming, Double Trouble Studio, →ISBN, page 172:

In most tycoons, you will find an automatic machine called a dropper, which is used for producing bricks.

2017, Christina Majaski, The Ultimate Unofficial Guide to Robloxing: Everything You Need to Know to Build Awesome Games!, New York, N.Y.: Sky Pony Press, →ISBN, page 65:

In my opinion, tycoons are great to create as your first game, but they take time to learn! The main tips are to keep the tycoon simple and stick with a theme.

2019, Roblox Guide to Success and Dominating the World of Roblox, Ro Books, →ISBN, page 13:

These experiences have fallen somewhat out of favor because once a tycoon is complete and all items are unlocked, there is not much of an incentive to continue playing. Updating these experiences can be a more difficult task, depending on how your tycoon is structured.

2022, Zander Brumbaugh, Coding Roblox Games Made Easy, 2nd edition, Packt, →ISBN, page 217:

“What should we play? Adopt Me, a tycoon, SCP, an obby?”

2022, Jessica Stone, Digital Play Therapy: A Clinician’s Guide to Comfort and Competence, 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN:

The next most common game that we see inside Roblox are Tycoons.

2022, Heath Haskins, The Advanced Roblox Coding Book: An Unofficial Guide, Updated Edition: Learn How to Script Games, Code Objects and Settings, and Create Your Own World!, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 153:

massively multiplayer online game
massively multiplayer online game

(video games) A subgame within the massively multiplayer online game Roblox, involving the use of a base to generate bricks and cash (similar to an idle game or clicker game), which can then be used to purchase upgrades and expand.


pad

pad (nominative singular)
pady (nominative plural)
padu (genitive singular)
padów (genitive plural)
padowi (dative singular)
padom (dative plural)
pad (accusative singular)
pady (accusative plural)
padem (instrumental singular)
padami (instrumental plural)
padzie (locative singular)
padach (locative plural)
padzie (singular vocative)
pady (plural vocative)


lapis

Lapis, opal, &c. are poliſh'd on a wooden wheel. To faſhion and Engrave vaſes of agate, cryſtal, lapis, or the like, they make uſe of a kind of lathe like that us'd by pewterers, excepting that as the pewterers lathe holds the veſſels, which are to be wrought with proper tools; that of the Engraver generally holds the tools which are turn'd by a wheel, and the veſſels held to them to be cut and engraven either in relievo or otherwiſe; [...]

1735, [John Barrow], “ENGRAVING”, in Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested. […], volume I (A–H), London: […] C[harles] Hitch and C[harles] Davis […], and S[amuel] Austen […], →OCLC:

French Bead Necklace of lapis or carnelian color, with crystal rondelles between each bead, graduated, 32 inches long.

1923 (reprinted 1993), Franklin Simon Fashion Catalog for 1923 (Franklin Simon & Co, New York), item number 53

That lapis lazuli in particular among the precious and semi-precious stones known from Mesopotamia was accorded considerable value in antiquity may be inferred from the archaeological record through association with high-status locii and goods. [...] deities receive votive gifts and booty of lapis, consisting of items of personal adornment and cult objects, while their temples are described as decorated with lapis or shining like lapis. [...] For example, the contents of the graves in the Royal Cemetery of Ur: [...] various objects employing inlay that include lapis among the insets, [...] Mari sent an emissary to acquire lapis from Lars.

2010, Irene Winter, editor, On Art in the Ancient Near East: From the Third Millennium B.C.E., page 291:

The buddha lands described in the Lotus share certain generic features: the ground is made of lapis or crystal; they are perfectly level, without mountains or valleys; they are free from all manner of filth, including the stench of latrines [...] The ground was made of lapis lazuli, [...]

2011, Daniel Boscaljon, Hope and the Longing for Utopia: Futures and Illusions in Theology and Narrative, page 99:


mobile game

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(video games) An electronic game played using a cellular phone.


bana

bana (indefinite nominative singular)
banas (genitive indefinite singular)
banan (definite nominative singular)
banans (definite genitive singular)
banor (indefinite nominative plural)
banors (genitive indefinite plural)
banorna (definite nominative plural)
banornas (definite genitive plural)

From Middle Low German bāne, from Old Saxon *bana, from Proto-West Germanic *banu, from Proto-Germanic *banō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen-.

Jag är fast på tredje banan


joystick

From joy + stick. First attested around 1910 (as joy-stick) as the control stick on an airplane. Its relation to the word joy is unclear.

unk

unclear

If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important.

A mechanical device consisting of a handgrip mounted on a base or pedestal and typically having one or more buttons, used to control an aircraft, computer, or other equipment.


joystick

joystick (nominative singular)
joysticki (nominative plural)
joysticku (genitive singular)
joysticków (genitive plural)
joystickowi (dative singular)
joystickom (dative plural)
joystick (accusative singular)
joysticki (accusative plural)
joystickiem (instrumental singular)
joystickami (instrumental plural)
joysticku (locative singular)
joystickach (locative plural)
joysticku (singular vocative)
joysticki (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English joystick.


exploit

From Old French esploit (noun), esploitier (verb).

(by extension, Internet, video games) An action or technique that takes advantage of the conditions of a video game to gain an advantage, or to disadvantage others.


sweaty

en-adj

sweaty (comparative sweatier, superlative sweatiest)

sweatier (comparative)
sweatiest (superlative)

From Middle English swety, equivalent to sweat + -y.

Watch out for that sweaty team.

The YouTuber delved deeper into his goals, claiming: "I want to do sweaty, try hard FPS gaming from the toilet."

2022 August 3, Terry Oh, “YouTuber turns toilet into gaming PC for when duty calls”, in Dexerto:

(video games, slang) Extremely (and possibly inappropriately) obsessed with winning.

I stick to casual because ranked lobbies are way too sweaty.

The mode caters to competitive players by offering increased health and larger lobby sizes. However, some players argue the game mode is extremely "sweaty."

(video games, slang) Attracting many extremely competitive players.


technical

en-noun

technical (countable and uncountable, plural technicals)

From Late Latin technicus + -al, from Ancient Greek τεχνικός (tekhnikós), from τέχνη (tékhnē, “skill”).

(video games) A special move in certain fighting games that cancels out the effect of an opponent's attack.


cheat

→ Dutch: cheat

→ French: cheat

→ German: Cheat

Inherited from Middle English chete, an aphetic form of eschete (“the reversion of property to the state”), from Old French eschet, escheit, escheoit (“that which falls to one”), from the past participle of eschoir (“to fall”) (modern French échoir), from Vulgar Latin *excadēre, from Latin ex + cadere (“fall”).

I've had a number of requests for a cheat for Turrican the first. Yes, there is a keypress built in […]

1992 January, Phil Howard, “Cheat Mode”, in Amstrad Action, number 76, page 32:

(video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.


cheat

(video games) cheat (unfair advantage in a computer game)


cheat

(video games) cheat (hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game)


camp

en-verb

camp (third-person singular simple present camps, present participle camping, simple past and past participle camped)

camps (present singular third-person)
camping (participle present)
camped (participle past)
camped (past)

From Middle English kampe (“battlefield, open space”), from Old English camp (“battle, contest, battlefield, open space”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamp (“open field where military exercises are held, level plain”), from Latin campus (“open field, level plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend; crooked”). Reinforced circa 1520 by Middle French can, camp (“place where an army lodges temporarily”), from Old Northern French camp, from the same Latin (whence also French champ from Old French). Cognate with Old High German champf (“battle, struggle”) (German Kampf), Old Norse kapp (“battle”), Old High German hamf (“paralysed, maimed, mutilated”). Doublet of campus and champ.
The verb is from Middle English campen, from Old English campian, compian (“to fight, war against”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampōn (“to fight, do battle”), from *kamp (“field, battlefield, battle”), see above. Cognate with Dutch kampen, German kämpfen (“to struggle”), Danish kæmpe, Swedish kämpa.

inh

Some players like to camp next to a power-up's spawning point.

Yet, even without the three second rule, where your big man could camp underneath and take those delightful “garbage” shots, there was little or no pivot offense, no cutting off the bucket.

(intransitive, sports, video games) To stay in an advantageous location.

דָּגַר

to stay in an advantageous location in a video game

The easiest way to win on this map is to camp the double damage.

Go and camp the flag for the win.

(transitive, video games) To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.

(transitive, video games) Short for corpse camp.


camper

first-person shooting
first-person shooter

(video games) A person who stays in one spot during a first-person shooting game, to guard an item etc.

kämppäri

video games: person who stays in one spot


camper

Unadapted borrowing from English camper.

(video games, Internet slang) camper (person who stays in one spot during a FPS game)


frame

→ Korean: 프레임 (peureim)

→ Swahili: fremu

From Middle English frame (“profit, benefit, advantage; a structure composed according to a plan”), from the verb (above) and also from Old Norse frami (“advantage, fame, bravery, efficiency, privilege, honor”); and frame (“a framework or structure of any kind”) which is of uncertain origin. The latter is usually regarded as a derivative of former; however, compare the rare Anglo-Norman and Old French frame, fraine (“frame, framework”), itself of uncertain origin, which might be a borrowing from the English, from the Norse, or even possibly ultimately from Frankish *hramu (“frame”) related to Dutch raam (“window frame”).

der

(electronics, film, animation, video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30 or 1/60 of a second.

When you play the game it will draw a set pattern depending on the frame you are on, with random additions to the pattern, to give a different orchard each time.

1982, Gilsoft International, Mongoose (video game instructions) [ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-info/m/Mongoose.txt]

Hunchback looks very good, bright, cheerful and with a loud tune. I think it could have had a bit more sound during the frame though.

1984, "Hunchback" (video game review) in Crash (issue 2, pages 73-74)

The first frame, funnily enough, brings just the sort of puzzle so rare in the remainder of the adventure whereby either it gets solved or you're left wandering excluded from where it's all happening.

1985, "Ashkeron!" (video game review) in Crash (issue 18, page 104)

(dated, video games) A stage or location in a video game.


saga

Borrowed from Old Norse saga, maybe through English saga.


mat

I used up all my mats cranking 90s and ended up getting one-pumped.

Using a Weapon Upgrade Bench, it's possible to upgrade a Common Shotgun, for example, all the way to Legendary provided you've harvested enough mats to do so.

2019 October 24, Christopher Groux, “'Fortnite' Weapon Upgrade Guide - Upgrade Bench Locations & More”, in Newsweek, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek Publishing LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-30:

While there are game modes where you can build without any requirements, you'll need to harvest materials to build in normal Fortnite games. Mats is the shortened version of materials.

[2020 November 28, Gökhan Çakır, “Common Fortnite terms and their meanings”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 2023-05-21:

Fortnite added a new trap with the Armored Wall reinforcement for mats and one viral TikTok showed just how deadly the new item can be in a close fight.

2021 September 25, Alan Bernal, “Viral Fortnite TikTok trick shows how to use Armored Walls for easy kills”, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 2021-10-26:

The looper goes on laying more than a thousand mats in thirty seconds. He finally reaches his opponent, who is easily brought down with a shell of a shotgun and a burst of an SMG. Upon eliminating the opponent, he is ecstatic in celebration.

2022 July 16, Sarthak Chauhan, “Fortnite YouTuber using 1000 mats in less than 30 seconds shows exactly what not to do”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original on 2023-05-29:

(video games, slang, chiefly Fortnite, in the plural) Clipping of material.


bloom

en-noun

bloom (countable and uncountable, plural blooms)

From Middle English blome, from Old Norse blóm, from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (“flower”). Doublet of bloom (“spongy mass of metal”); see there for more.

Bloom does add a skill element, burst firing the weapon instead of holding the trigger down, but it's questionable if adding a skill element like that is the actual intent of bloom, because that’s a pretty lame and linear skill element to add, requiring people to tap the button instead of hold it down.

2018 February 21, “Bullet Bloom: An FPS Tragedy”, in CritPoints:

(video games) The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held.


ninja

Enter the Ninja
Eric Van Lustbader
Hokusai Manga
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
ninja

A romanized borrowing of Japanese 忍者 (ninja), popularized within Japanese by manga after World War II and in English by Eric Van Lustbader's 1980 novel The Ninja and the 1981 movie Enter the Ninja, of uncertain derivation but with an underlying sense of secret or hidden person.
The “Mongolian miner” sense arose from the supposed resemblance of the bowls used to wash ore with mercury to the shells of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
The Juggalo slang sense arose via influence from AAVE nigga.

I had TOTK running on my pc 2 weeks before it released on the switch and I'm still here. They can send the ninjas, I'm waiting.

Nintendo ninjas were inside the discord, watching. Now all the Yuzu devs have turned over all electronic devices, websites, logs...

2024 March 5, @HikikomoriMedia, Twitter:

(figurative) A person considered similarly skillful to the historical ninja, especially in covert or stealthy operation.

(video games, fandom slang, in the plural) A notional draconian arm of a corporation (originally Nintendo), tasked with dealing with individuals that infringe on its rights or do not comply with its regulations.


ninja

en-verb

ninja (third-person singular simple present ninjas, present participle ninjaing, simple past and past participle ninjaed or ninja'd)

ninjas (present singular third-person)
ninjaing (participle present)
ninjaed (participle past)
ninjaed (past)
ninja'd (participle past)
ninja'd (past)

That damn warrior ninja'd an epic-quality wand even though he can't even use it!

(online gaming slang) To claim an item through abuse of game mechanics.


kite

kite (third-person singular simple present kites, present participle kiting, simple past and past participle kited)

kites (present singular third-person)
kiting (participle present)
kited (participle past)
kited (past)

The noun is from Middle English kyte, kīte, kete (“a kite endemic to Europe, especially the red kite (Milvus milvus)”), from Old English cȳta (“kite; bittern”), from Proto-West Germanic *kūtijō, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *kūts (“bird of prey”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewH-d- (“to cry, screech”). The English word is cognate with Scots kyt, kyte (“kite; bird of prey”), Middle High German kiuzelīn, kützlīn (“owling”) (modern German Kauz (“owl”)). Possibly a doublet of coot.
Sense 3 (“lightweight toy”) is from the fact that it hovers in the air like the bird.
The verb is derived from the noun.

извисявам

to cause (something) to move upwards rapidly

To keep ahead of (an enemy) and repeatedly attack it from a distance, without exposing oneself to danger.

To attack (an enemy) or otherwise cause it to give chase, so as to lead it somewhere (like a kite is led on a string), for example into a trap or ambush or away from its comrades or something it was protecting.

If you're pulling or kiting a creature and it aggros an innocent passer-by, it's your fault and you should apologize.

2001, Juanita Jones, Everquest Player’s Guide: Prima’s Official Strategy Guide, Roseville, Calif.: Prima Games, →ISBN, page 70:

The wind kited us toward shore.

It was mere happenstance that the Weston meteor kited across the sky on December 14, 1807, the same day President [Thomas] Jefferson's Non-Importation Act, which restricted trade with Great Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars, went into effect.

2010, Cathryn J. Prince, “The Misquote Heard Round the World”, in A Professor, A President, and A Meteor: The Birth of American Science, Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, →ISBN, page 130:

In the distance creatures on leathery wings kited across the sky, lofted by thermal winds.

2019, Amy J. Murphy, chapter 13, in Pat Dobie, editor, Allies and Enemies: Legacy (Allies and Enemies; book 4), [s.l.]: Amy J. Murphy:

(transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) glide in the manner of a kite (“bird”).


res

Agora o rework está fazendo sentido, o res como habilidade funciona como habilidade e não como uma ultimate em forma de habilidade, com 70% mais lento pra dar o res em alguém ela pode ser pinada, levar stun, tem que ter oportunidade para ambos os lados.

2017 November 2, comment by Amido // NewsInside.org, “Overwatch recebe atualização que balanceia Mercy e Ana”, in IGN Brasil:

A atual vc apenas da Res atrás da parede, precisa ficar dividindo a cura para outras pessoas quando o outro healer morre, ou morre e ele troca pra DPS, ai vc e obrigado a pegar um suporte que aguente e se encaixe na comp.

2018 August 20, Aqua, “Vamos falar da Mercy 1.0?”, in Blizzard Forums:

Isso serve não só pra status em si, mas, por exemplo: pra você ressucitar alguém de Mercy. Tem res que não vale a pena você ir. Tipo assim, não vale a pena, não agrega nada pro jogo. Tem res que agrega.

2023 December 8, Nitrao, 19:05 from the start, in DANDO DICAS PARA DIAMANTE, player de SOUJORN - Coach do Nitrao, via YouTube:

(video games, Internet slang) res; Clipping of ressurreição.


simulation

en-noun

simulation (countable and uncountable, plural simulations)

→ Japanese: シミュレーション (shimyurēshon)

First attested in 1340 as Middle English symulacioun, from Middle French simulation, from Old French simulation/simulacion, from Latin simulātiōnem, from simulō (“imitate”).
Morphologically simulate + -ion.

Some kids in the classroom will be playing simulations after school.

(video games) A video game designed to convey a more or less realistic experience, as of a sport or warfare.


RP

RP (countable and uncountable, plural RPs)

(video games, ESRB) Initialism of rating pending.


loot

→ Portuguese: loot

Borrowed from Hindi लूट (lūṭ, “booty”), either from Sanskrit लोप्त्र (loptra, “booty, stolen property”) or लुण्ट् (luṇṭ, “to rob, plunder”). The figurative meaning developed in American English in the 1920s, resulting in a generalized meaning by the 1950s.

poen

slang: money, especially illicitly acquired

Loot, plunder, pillage.

He always found the talismanic gathering-word Loot (plunder), a sufficient bond of union in any part of India.

1839, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, number 45, page 104:

Why, the race [of camp followers] is suckled on loot, fed on theft, swaddled in plunder, and weaned on robbery.

1860, William Howard Russell, My Diary in India in the Year 1858–9, volume II, page 340:

The horses in the archbishop's stables the murderers appropriated as their own fee,—or, as we should now say, as loot.

1862, Walter F. Hook, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, volume II, page 505:

India went from being a world-famous exporter of finished cloth into an importer, went from having 27% of world trade to less than 2%. Meanwhile, colonialists like Sir Robert Clive bought their rotten boroughs in England on the proceeds of their loot in India while taking the Hindi word "loot" into their dictionaries as well as their habits.

2015, Shashi Tharoor, "Britain Does Owe Reparations", 00:02:22

The loot from the sack of Constantinople included the head of John the Baptist.

Synonym of booty, goods seized from an enemy by violence, particularly (historical) during the sacking of a town in war or (video games) after successful combat.


loot

en-verb

loot (third-person singular simple present loots, present participle looting, simple past and past participle looted)

loots (present singular third-person)
looting (participle present)
looted (participle past)
looted (past)

⇒ Portuguese: lootear

when the looting starts, the shooting starts

Gunganarian, the leader of the Chooars, continues his system of looting and murder

1833, The Asiatic Journal & Monthly Register for British India & Its Dependencies, page 66:

The plunderers are beaten whenever they are caught, but there is a good deal of burning and ‘looting’ as they call it.

On the 22nd ultimo the Boers made a raid into the District, and the result was that some 300 head of cattle and 600 sheep were looted.

1901 October 11, “District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 16, page 483:

We looted the temple and the orphanage, which turned most of the NPCs against us.

(transitive) Synonym of plunder, to seize by violence particularly during the capture of a city during war or (video games) after successful combat.


loot

pt-noun

loot m (usually uncountable, plural loots)

Etymology tree
Sanskrit लुण्ट् (luṇṭ)der.
Hindi लूट (lūṭ)bor.
English lootbor.
Portuguese loot
Unadapted borrowing from English loot. First attested in the early 2000's.

etymon

Loot (marrom): São os itens que podem ser pegos ao matar algum monstro.

2004 November 6, Locke Cole, “Localização e preços de itens em Rookgaard”, in Fóruns TibiaBR.com:

Cyberpunk tem uma variedade de armas, equipamentos e implantes gigantesca e, claro, pra equipar o que tem de melhor, o V vai precisar de uma grana violenta. Fazer loot e vender tudo é uma forma de fazer um troco.

2022 November 25, Eduardo Peixoto, 27:41 from the start, in DEBULHEI Cyberpunk 2077! Era PODRE, Ficou INCRÍVEL! 100+ Horas de Jogo (VIDEO SEM SPOILERS)😲😲, Curitiba: Aperte Start, via YouTube:

loot (goods seized from an enemy after successful combat)

O loot em questão é um pacote com um fato camuflado, uma picareta, uma mochila e o emote Freestylin.

2018 May 9, Jorge Loureiro Editor, “Mais loot exclusivo em Fortnite para os subscritores do Twitch Prime”, in Eurogamer.pt:

loot (any valuable thing received for free)


hacker

From Late Middle English hackere, hakker, hakkere (“one who cuts wood, woodchopper, woodcutter; (rare) tool for cutting wood”), from hakken, hacke (“to cut (something) with a chopping action, hack; to make a chopping action”) + -er(e) (suffix forming agent nouns). Hakken is derived from Old English *haccian (“to hack”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakkōn (“to chop, hack”), from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop, hack”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“to be sharp; a handle; a hook; a peg”). The English word may be analysed as hack (“to chop or cut down in a rough manner”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).

hacker

one who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data stored in, or to carry out malicious attacks on, computer networks or computer systems

ха́кер

one who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer

hakkuri

something that hacks; device or tool for hacking

PUBG Mobile has seen more than its fair share of hackers, with Tencent banning millions of players every week for cheating.

2021 June 27, Wasif Ahmed, “Tencent Banned over 3.8 Million Hackers in PUBG Mobile Last Week”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 2022-06-03:

Cheaters continue to plague Fortnite, as Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins and Jack 'CouRage' Dunlop have run into a hacker using fly-mode and aimbot, completely destroying and leaving both popular streamers speechless.

2022 January 11, Samed Kadirogullari, “Fortnite’s Flying Hackers Leave Ninja & CouRage Speechless”, in Screen Rant, archived from the original on 2022-01-11:

The server is certainly not for everyone. Gamers need to be prepared to deal with many hackers, trolls, and griefers. However, those looking for a unique Minecraft experience might just find it on 2b2t.

2022 March 9, Edward Hays, “10 best Minecraft servers to play in 2022”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original on 2022-12-05:

While a patch was rolled out that's given Diamond, Master, and Predator competitors protection against DDoSing, players still want Respawn to do more about the abundance of hackers.

2023 January 30, Alex Garton, “Apex Legends Dev Confirms Even More Anti-cheat Improvements Coming in Season 16”, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 2023-01-30:

(computer security, telecommunications) One who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data stored in, or to carry out malicious attacks on, computer networks or computer systems.

(by extension, video games, slang) Someone who cheats or gains an unfair advantage in a video game by means of a disallowed modification to the game.

hakkeri

someone who cheats or gains an unfair advantage in a video game by means of a disallowed modification to the game


perk

(video games) A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up.


cheater

pt-noun

cheater m or f by sense (plural cheaters)

Unadapted borrowing from English cheater.

ubor

Os mais radicais afirmavam que Esmagossauro era um cheater, que hackeava em benefício próprio e que não tinha mérito algum em ser líder do ranking.

2013, Felipe Castilho, Ouro, Fogo e Megabytes, Gutenberg, →ISBN, page 80:

(video games) cheater (one who uses cheats in a video game)


guardian

→ Japanese: ガーディアン (gādian)

/ˈɡɑː.dɪ.ən/

From Middle English gardein, garden, (also wardein, > Modern English warden), from Old French guardein, from the verb guarder, of Germanic origin. Compare French gardien. Doublet of warden. By surface analysis, guard + -ian.

Secret weak points of bosses/guardians.

1993, Zach Meston, J. Douglas Arnold, Awesome Super Nintendo Secrets 2:

'if you tell me how to find the secret door in level three, I'll tell you how to defeat the end of level guardian'

(video games) A major or final enemy; boss.


level

en-noun

level (countable and uncountable, plural levels)

→ German: Level

→ Irish: leibhéal

desctree

→ Japanese: レベル (reberu)
→ Korean: 레벨 (rebel)

→ Welsh: lefel

From Middle English level, from Old French livel, liveau m, later nivel, niveau, from Latin libella f (“a balance, a level”), diminutive of libra f (“a balance, a level”); see libra, librate. Doublet of libella and niveau.
The verb is from Middle English levelen, from the noun.

It took me weeks to get to level seven. Watch out for the next level; the bad guys there are really overpowered.

(video games) One of several discrete segments of a game, generally increasing in difficulty and representing different locations in the game world.

My half-orc barbarian reached fifth level before he was squashed by a troll.

(roleplaying games, video games) A numeric value that quantifies a character, ability, or item's experience and power.

級

gaming: numeric value for something or someone's experience and power


level

en-verb

level (third-person singular simple present levels, present participle (US) leveling or levelling, simple past and past participle (US) leveled or levelled)

levels (present singular third-person)
leveling (US participle present)
levelling (participle present)
leveled (US participle past)
leveled (US past)
levelled (participle past)
levelled (past)

I levelled after defeating the dragon.

(roleplaying games, video games) To progress to the next level.


lag

lag (third-person singular simple present lags, present participle lagging, simple past and past participle lagged)

lags (present singular third-person)
lagging (participle present)
lagged (participle past)
lagged (past)

→ Swedish: lagga

My phone is starting to lag.

(computing, informal, video games) To respond slowly.


melee

melee (third-person singular simple present melees, present participle meleeing, simple past and past participle meleed)

melees (present singular third-person)
meleeing (participle present)
meleed (participle past)
meleed (past)

Borrowed from French mêlée, from Old French meslee, feminine past participle of mesler (“to mix”), derived from Latin misceō (“mix”). Doublet of medley.

(video games, slang) To physically hit in close quarters, as opposed to shooting, blowing up, or other ranged means of damage. Often refers to the usage of a hand-to-hand weapon.


conquest

en-noun

conquest (countable and uncountable, plural conquests)

From Middle English conquest, from Old French conqueste (French conquête).

(video games) A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competing teams (usually two) attempt to take over predetermined spawn points labeled by flags.

lipunvaltaus

competitive mode in first-person shooter games


A cursive variation of ᾱ or ᾱᾱ, the abbreviation of Greek ἀνά (aná) used in recipes and prescriptions with the meaning "of each", and later extended to accounting. (Other explanations have that it is ā, an abbreviation of Latin ad (“to”), or French à (“to”).)

While I was dealing with the hounds, an orc tracker stumbled across @ from the east.

(video games) In roguelike games, the player character, conventionally represented by this symbol in character-based interfaces.


team

From Middle English tem, teem, teme, from Old English tēam (“child-bearing, offspring, brood, set of draught animals”), from Proto-West Germanic *taum, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“that which draws or pulls”), from Proto-Germanic *taugijaną, *tugōną, *teuhōną, *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull, draw”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with Scots team, teem (“a chain, harness”), Saterland Frisian Toom (“bridle; breeding”), West Frisian team (“bridle, team”), Dutch toom (“bridle, reins, flock of birds”), German Low German Toom (“bridle”), German Zaum (“bridle”), Norwegian tømme (“bridle, rein”), Swedish töm (“leash, rein”). More at teem, tie, tow.

cog

(video games, colloquial) Used to propose that another player team up with the speaker.


hub

From earlier hubbe, which has the same immediate origin as hob. Hub was originally a dialectal word; its ultimate origin is unknown.

In a break with tradition, these levels are tackled in any order, with the next act chosen from a semi-random selection machine located in the game's hub area.

2014, Julian Hazeldine, Speedrun: The Unauthorised History of Sonic The Hedgehog, page 47:

(video games) An area in a video game from which individual levels are accessed.


scrim

As a team, the players decided to focus less on streaming (a major source of income) and more on in-house scrims, VOD review and practice, hoping to become a better team.

2016, Blog of Legends, "The Gap hasn’t closed: Comparing the LCS and LCK at Worlds"

(online gaming) A practice match between one or more organized teams usually in preparation for a more competitive format, such as a tournament.


scrim

en-verb

scrim (third-person singular simple present scrims, present participle scrimming, simple past and past participle scrimmed)

scrims (present singular third-person)
scrimming (participle present)
scrimmed (participle past)
scrimmed (past)

Accusations of him drinking instead of scrimming with the team, not attending practices at all and playing guitar instead of scrimming surfaced.

2016, The Inquirer, The EE Blog: EternalEnvy Accuses Former Team, Team Secret, of Delayed Payments and Monetary Indiscretion:

(online gaming) To participate in a scrim.


pew

(video games, childish) Representative of the sound made by the firing of a gun, particularly a blaster in science fiction.


mod

en-noun

mod (countable and uncountable, plural mods)

Since Doom II, thousands of gamers had begun modifying id's products and making them available for free online. Doom fans would communicate entirely over the Internet to create mods of the game—often never even meeting in person or, for that matter, talking on the phone.

2003, David Kushner, Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, Random House, →ISBN:

(video games) An end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behaviour of a video game.

Mod

video games: an end user-created package containing modifications for a video game


mod

en-verb

mod (third-person singular simple present mods, present participle modding, simple past and past participle modded)

mods (present singular third-person)
modding (participle present)
modded (participle past)
modded (past)

Learning Java is what got me into modding Minecraft.

(video games) To install or create a mod.


mod

Borrowed from English mod, from modification.

(video games) mod (end user-created modifications)


fatality

[feɪ̯ˈtʰælɪɾi]

From French fatalité. equivalent to fatal + -ity.

My first enchantment with computers came when I was about six years old, in Montreal in the early nineties, playing Mortal Kombat with my oldest brother. He told me about some “fatalities”—gruesome, witty ways of killing your opponent.

2023 November 13, James Somers, “A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:

(video games) A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.


crater

crater (third-person singular simple present craters, present participle cratering, simple past and past participle cratered)

craters (present singular third-person)
cratering (participle present)
cratered (participle past)
cratered (past)

First coined 1613, from Latin crātēr (“basin”), from Ancient Greek κρᾱτήρ (krātḗr, “mixing-bowl, wassail-bowl”).


gimp

Attested in US slang since the 1920s. Maybe influenced by, or cognate with limp.

(video games, slang, derogatory) A character or ability that is underpowered.


gimp

en-verb

gimp (third-person singular simple present gimps, present participle gimping, simple past and past participle gimped)

gimps (present singular third-person)
gimping (participle present)
gimped (participle past)
gimped (past)

(transitive, video games, slang) To make underpowered; to limit or restrict the useful effects of.


incomplete

From Middle English incomplete, incompleet, from Late Latin incomplētus, from in- (“un-; not”) + complētus (“complete”), equivalent to in- (“not”) + complete.

(video games, Internet) A multiplayer game that is abandoned because one player disconnects.


pug

(online gaming) Alternative letter-case form of PuG (“a group of players who are unknown to each other, grouped together to work toward a short-term goal such as completing a dungeon or a raid”)


molly

Brimstone, Viper, and Phoenix's mollies were adjusted during a closed beta patch, changing the damage tick speed so players couldn't avoid damage by bunny hopping. Killjoy's Nanoswarm will likely follow suit.

2020 August 5, Andreas Stavropoulos, “Hiko on Killjoy's Nanoswarm: "I think they do a lot of damage too fast and I think it's hard to even tell you're in a molly sometimes"”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 2022-08-11:

(video games, slang) A Molotov cocktail.


gap

gap (third-person singular simple present gaps, present participle gapping, simple past and past participle gapped)

gaps (present singular third-person)
gapping (participle present)
gapped (participle past)
gapped (past)

From Middle English gap, gappe, from Old Norse gap (“an empty space, gap, chasm”), from gapa (“to gape, scream”), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to open wide, gape”). Related to Danish gab (“an expanse, space, gap”), Old English ġeap (“open space, expanse”); compare English gape.

cog

Honestly K&C could release today with like a bit more SOT buffs and they'd probably still gap a lot of the game

2022 May 4, u/jhawk1117, “Two units that were really ahead of their time”, in Reddit, r/DBZDokkanBattle, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

sometimes dril gets absolutely gapped by average ukraine war reddit comments

2023 May 23, @slime_machine, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

Imagine street racing someone then suddenly both of you get gapped by a slammed tiger tank 😂 AKA der "Drippenwagen"

2023 December 19, @kommanderkarl, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

"Not really the reason his team lost" is still not showing up by Chovy's standarts. Like in a way you're downplaying how good this guy has been domestically the last 3-4 years. He is comfortably the best player in the league and is utterly gapping every other midlaner in the league series after series, year after year.

2024 March 9, u/djpain20, “T1 vs. Gen.G / LCK 2024 Spring - Week 7 / Post-Match Discussion”, in Reddit, r/leagueoflegends, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

My sports car gets gapped by families of 5 in these all the time and they don't even know we're racing

2024 May 14, u/DM-Me-Your_Titties, “Kia reveals mid-life update to EV6.”, in Reddit, r/cars, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

When you avoid getting buffed next patch due to your players gapping

2024 July 6, @Rubiflorid, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

(transitive, intransitive, slang, especially video games, motor racing) To surpass (someone or something) by a considerable margin.


grief

en-verb

grief (third-person singular simple present griefs, present participle griefing, simple past and past participle griefed)

griefs (present singular third-person)
griefing (participle present)
griefed (participle past)
griefed (past)

From Middle English greef, gref, from Old French grief (“grave, heavy, grievous, sad”), from Latin gravis (“heavy, grievous, sad”). Doublet of grave.

der

While ban and his pals stand squarely in this tradition, they also stand for something new: the rise of organized griefing, grounded in online message-board communities and thick with in-jokes, code words, taboos, and an increasingly articulate sense of purpose. No longer just an isolated pathology, griefing has developed a full-fledged culture.

2008 January 18, Julian Dibbell, “Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World”, in Wired:

(online gaming) To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the game, and especially by exploiting game mechanics without using cheats to do so.


player

From Middle English pleyer, playere, from Old English pleġere (“player, athlete, wrestler”), from Proto-West Germanic *plegārī. Equivalent to play + -er.

inh

The player is free to create their own narrative within a much larger set of possible designed narrative options, or, given the geographic and dialogical openness of Morrowind, to refuse the creation of any narrative but their own and wander aimlessly through the game.

2015, Angus Slater, “Prophecy, Pre-destination, and Free-form Gameplay: The Nerevarine Prophecy in Bethesda’s ‘Morrowind’”, in Online: Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet, volume 7, →DOI, page 175:

(gaming, video games) A gamer; a player of video games or similar.

玩家

video games: gamer, gamester — see also gamer, gamester


player

Unadapted borrowing from English player.

O server da Hawkwind reconheceria os códigos desonestos e daria um belo de um kick no traseiro gordo do Esmagossauro, ou de qualquer player que ousasse ser desonesto na rede.

(video games) player (a person or artificial intelligence that competes in a video game)


raid

From Scots raid, from Northern Middle English rade, from Old English rād (“a riding, an expedition on horseback, road”), whence also the inherited English road (“way, street”). The earlier senses of “a riding, expedition, raid” fell into disuse in Early Modern English, but were revived in the northern form raid by Walter Scott in the early 19th century. The use for a swift police operation appears in the later 19th century and may perhaps have been influenced by French razzia (similar in both original meaning and sound).

der

(online gaming) A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.


yoke

From Middle English yok, yoke, ȝok from Old English ġeoc (“yoke”), from Proto-Germanic *juką (“yoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm (“yoke”), from *yewg- (“to join; to tie together, yoke”). Doublet of yuga, jugum, yoga and possibly yogh.
Senses 3.1 (“area of arable land”) and 3.2 (“amount of work done with draught animals”) probably referred to the area of land that could generally be ploughed by yoked draught animals within a given time.

poikkipuu

linking or supporting object that resembles a yoke

駕駛桿

device with crosspieces used to control an aircraft

iugum

unit of land area notionally equivalent to the area a team of yoked draft animals can work in a day

Senses relating to a frame around the neck.

Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.

(aviation) Any of various devices with crosspieces used to control an aircraft; specifically, the control column.

(video games) A similar device used as a game controller.


slime

en-noun

slime (countable and uncountable, plural slimes)

→ French: slime

→ Japanese: スライム (suraimu)

→ Korean: 슬라임 (seullaim)

From Middle English slime, slyme, slim, slym, from Old English slīm, from Proto-Germanic *slīmą, from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”). Cognates include Danish slim, Saterland Frisian Sliem, Dutch slijm, German Schleim (“mucus, slime”), Latin limus (“mud”), Ancient Greek λίμνη (límnē, “marsh”).

der

This is a nameless blue slime, drawn by Chris Hildenbrand, for a role playing game (RPG) that was never released.

2006, Lawrence Wright, Character Design for Mobile Devices, Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, page 8:

(fantasy, video games) A monster having the form of a slimy blob.


assrun

en-verb

assrun (third-person singular simple present assruns, present participle assrunning, simple past assran, past participle assrun)

assruns (present singular third-person)
assrunning (participle present)
assran (past)
assrun (participle past)

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From ass + run. First used among gaming communities in the late 1990s.

One of your players assran me at every opportunity.

You were assrunning for the whole game.

(US, video games, slang) To follow (a player in a first-person shooter game) in order to shoot them from behind.


beastmaster

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(video games) A character in video games who fights monsters and other creatures.

role-playing video game
role-playing video game

(video games) A role-playing video game character class that is able to control beasts or draw upon their aspects or powers.


stack

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From Middle English stack, stacke, stakke, stak, from Old Norse stakkr (“a barn; haystack; heap; pile”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz (“a barn; rick; haystack”), which per Kroonen (arguing for the controversial Kluge's law) is from *stogʰ-nós, cognate with Ancient Greek στόχος (stokhos), but unclear whether he derives *stogʰ-nós from a Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ- (“pole; rod; stick; stake”). Per Pokorny et al., from PIE *(s)teg- (“stake, pole, rod, stick, beam”) and cognate with Latin tignum ("tree trunk, beam, log"), but not cognate with Ancient Greek στόχος.
The data structure sense is a calque of Dutch stapel, introduced by Edsger W. Dijkstra.
Cognate with Icelandic stakkur (“stack”), Swedish stack (“stack”), Danish stak (“stack”), Norwegian stakk (“stack”). Related to stake and sauna.

der

I've got 107 Golden Branches, but the stack size is 20 so they're taking up 6 spaces in my inventory.

(video games) The quantity of a given item which fills up an inventory slot or bag.


telegraph

André François Miot de Mélito
Claude Chappe
telegraph
telegraph (disambiguation)

Borrowed from French télégraphe, equivalent to tele- (“far, distant”) + graph (“writing”), suggested as a new name for Claude Chappe's overland semaphore network by André François Miot de Mélito in place of Chappe's original tachygraphe (“tachygraph, fast writer”).

af

(video games) A visible or audible cue that indicates to an opponent the action that a character is about to take.


stacked

en-adj

stacked (comparative more stacked, superlative most stacked)

more stacked (comparative)
most stacked (superlative)

The addition of Holiday is especially auspicious because while the team is stacked with great offensive players, it is a little lacking on defense, and he fills that gap.

2021 July 23, Eve Peyser, “U.S. Men's Basketball Had a Rocky Tokyo Olympics Start. I'm Still Excited.”, in New York Magazine:

(sports, video games, of a team) Having many skilled players.

(title)

2022 January 2, Carvs, “I Killed a Stacked Player Using 117 Ravagers...”, in YouTube:

(video games) Having a large advantage as a result of accumulating many items and upgrades.


SF

(video games) Initialism of Street Fighter.


paddle

en-noun

paddle (countable and uncountable, plural paddles)

→ Danish: paddel, padle

Partly from the verb paddle ("to splash, dabble"; see below) and partly from Middle English padell (“small spade”).
Middle English padell is from Medieval Latin padela, itself of uncertain origin: perhaps an alteration of Middle English *spaddle (see also spaddle), a diminutive of spade; or from Latin patella (“pan, plate”), the diminutive of patina, or a merger of the two. Compare Ancient Greek πηδάλιον (pēdálion, “rudder, steering oar”), derived from πηδός (pēdós, “the blade of an oar; an oar”).

cog

(video games, dated) A game controller with a round wheel used to control player movement along one axis of the video screen.


MUD

multi-user dungeon
multi-user dungeon#English

(video games, online gaming) Acronym of multi-user dungeon: an interactive online environment in which players may jointly engage in fantasy role-playing games.


clip

en-verb

clip (third-person singular simple present clips, present participle clipping, simple past and past participle clipt or clipped)

clips (present singular third-person)
clipt (participle past)
clipt (past)
clipped (participle past)
clipped (past)

From Middle English clippen, from Old Norse klippa (“to clip, cut the hair, shear sheep”). Cognate with Icelandic klippa (“to clip”), Swedish klippa (“to clip”), Danish klippe (“to clip”), Norwegian Bokmål klippe (“to clip”).

der

The camera keeps clipping that ceiling.

Clipping through walls is integral to the game's speedruns.

Oh, no, I clipped my avatar through the barrier!

(computer graphics, video games, transitive, intransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).


summon

From Anglo-Norman somoundre, from Old French sumundre, from Latin summonēre, itself from sub + monēre, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti, causative from *men- (“to think”).

Conjuration magic in Baldur's Gate 3 allows players to summon a variety of helpful creatures […] These summons can assist players in combat and exploration, providing strategic advantages with their unique abilities.

2023 October 30, Nyah Payne, “Baldur's Gate 3: Best Summons, Ranked”, in Gamerant:

(video games) A creature magically summoned to do the summoner's bidding.


simmer

(informal, video games) Someone who plays a sim (a simulation game), particularly The Sims.


tipster

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Absent from the pages of CRASH for a year, ex-tipster Robin Candy returns and puts finger to key to debate the state of the games software industry.

Those are the two choice words top tipster Rich Pelley used to describe the monthly helpathon that is the one and only COMPLETE CONTROL.

1994, “Amiga Power”, in magazine, number 42:

Does anybody know what Jon Riglar is doing now? (SU Tipster for about 6 years - Zapchat!).

1995, Stephen Smith, “Zub - Hidden Game?”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):

(video games, informal) One who provides tips or hints on how to succeed at a game.


ez

LOL too ez. ur so bad

Just use a courier to send your phone/laptop back every once a week it's that ez ¶ /s

2023 February 1, @Dooter18769429, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-11-17:

this game is too ez

2023 November 13, @6klvs, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-11-17:

(text messaging, especially video games) Abbreviation of easy.


deathmatch

/ˈdɛθ.mæt͡ʃ/

There are only eight levels but the varied game modes (including time attacks, survivals, team deathmatches, hunts, and sieges) in both single and multi-player keeps things interesting.

The player continued to describe their own experience with deathmatch, explaining sometimes it takes several minutes for the deathmatch to load — meaning by the time they spawn, the game is almost over.

2023 August 5, Shay Robson, “Valorant players plead with Riot for overdue Deathmatch rework”, in Dexerto:

(video games) A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competitors attempt to assassinate one another.


deathmatch

en-verb

deathmatch (third-person singular simple present deathmatches, present participle deathmatching, simple past and past participle deathmatched)

deathmatches (present singular third-person)
deathmatching (participle present)
deathmatched (participle past)
deathmatched (past)

/ˈdɛθ.mæt͡ʃ/

Doom video game (id Software, 1993): message shown when quitting
If I were your boss, I'd deathmatch ya in a minute!

(video games, transitive) To compete against in a deathmatch.

(video games, intransitive) To take part in deathmatch gaming.


mon

From Japanese 文 (mon). Cognate to wen, mun and van.

The shimonsen or shimon, originally worth four mon, but debased to two mon.

1902, Walter Del Mar, Around the World Through Japan, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., page 136:

(historical) The former currency of Japan until 1870, before the yen.


mon

From a dialectal variant of man; compare Western Middle English mon (alongside Eastern man).

Ee I'm allus glad to see a mon like thee. That's as welcome lad, as welcome as can be. Fotch thi cheer up t'table. Stop as long as th'art able. Fer I'm allus glad to see a mon like thee.

1974, “A Mon Like Thee”, in Best o't' Bunch, performed by The Oldham Tinkers:

I am a Black Country mon. Yow dow know and the Brummies woh understond.

2020, “Black Country Mon”performed by Johnny Cole:

(slang) A colloquial means of address of man in places such as Jamaica, and Lancashire, Shropshire and the Black Country in England.