kill

From Middle English killen, kyllen, cüllen (“to strike, beat, cut”), of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots kele, keil (“to kill”).
* Perhaps from unattested Old English *cyllan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwulljan, from Proto-Germanic *kwuljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to throw, hit, hurt by throwing”).
* Or, possibly a variant of Old English cwellan (“to kill, murder, execute”) (see quell).
* Or, from Old Norse kolla (“to hit on the head, harm”), related to Norwegian kylla (“to poll”), Middle Dutch kollen (“to knock down”), Icelandic kollur (“top, head”); see also coll, cole).
Compare also Saterland Frisian källe (“to hurt”), Middle Dutch kellen (“to kill, hurt”), Middle Low German kellen, killen (“to ache strongly, cause one great pain”) (whence German Low German kellen, killen (“to hurt, injure, torment, vex”)), Middle High German kellen (“to torment; torture”).

cog

l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand

confirmed kills

A flying ace is usually one with five or more confirmed kills.

The result of killing; that which has been killed.

(military, gaming, countable) An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.


kill

(gaming) a kill; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.


next

From Middle English nexte, nexste, nixte, from Old English nīehsta, nīehste, etc., inflected forms of nīehst (“nearest, next”), superlative form of nēah (“nigh”) (the comparative would become near), corresponding to Proto-Germanic *nēhwist (“nearest, closest”); equivalent to nigh + -est. Cognate with Saterland Frisian naist (“next”), Dutch naast (“next to”), German nächst (“next”), Danish næste (“next”), Swedish näst (“next”), Icelandic næst (“next”), Persian نزد (nazd, “near, with”).

inh

neest (alternative dialectal)
neist (alternative Scotland)
nex (alternative archaic)
nex' (alternative dialectal)

gg team, Wanna play next?


tick

From Middle English *tik, tek, tyche (“light touch, tap”), from the verb (see Etymology 3 below). Compare Dutch tik (“a pat, tap”), Middle High German zic (“a slight touch”).

cog

(gaming) Each of the fixed time periods, in a tick-based game, in which players or characters may perform a set number of actions.


KS

en-verb

KS (third-person singular simple present KSs, present participle KSing, simple past and past participle KSed)

KSs (present singular third-person)
KSing (participle present)
KSed (participle past)
KSed (past)

(online gaming) Initialism of kill steal.


save

Eu cheguei mesmo na última fase, mas perdi meu save então terei que começar o jogo de novo.

I did reach the final level, but I lost my save file so I'm gonna have to start the game over.

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

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

(informal, gaming) save file (of a video game or computer game)


break

break (third-person singular simple present breaks, present participle breaking, simple past broke or (archaic) brake, past participle broken or (nonstandard) broke)

breaks (present singular third-person)
breaking (participle present)
broke (past)
brake (archaic past)
broken (participle past)
broke (nonstandard participle past)
break (infinitive)
break (first-person present singular)
broke (first-person past singular)
break (present second-person singular)
breakest (archaic present second-person singular)
broke (past second-person singular)
brokest (archaic past second-person singular)
breaks (present singular third-person)
breaketh (archaic present singular third-person)
broke (past singular third-person)
break (plural present)
broke (past plural)
break (present subjunctive)
broke (past subjunctive)
break (imperative present)
breaking (participle present)
broken (participle past)

From Middle English breken, from Old English brecan (“to break”), from Proto-West Germanic *brekan, from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”). Doublet of bray.
Cognates
Cognates of Germanic origin include Scots brek (“to break”), West Frisian brekke (“to break”), Dutch breken (“to break”), Low German breken (“to break”), German brechen (“to break”), French broyer (“to crush, grind”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (brikan, “to break, destroy”), Norwegian brek (“desire, yearning”).
Also cognate with Albanian brishtë (“fragile”), Latin frangō (“break, break up, shatter”, verb), whence English fracture and other terms – fragile, frail, fraction, and fragment.

breek

intransitive: to separate into (to end up in) two or more pieces

thyen

transitive: to separate into (to cause to end up in) two or more pieces

sındırmaq

to cause a person to lose spirit or will

խախտել

transitive: to do that which is forbidden by (something)

փչանալ

intransitive: to stop functioning properly or altogether

ջարդել

transitive: to cause to stop functioning

burst

ergative: separate into two or more pieces

contravene

transitive: do that which is forbidden by

break one's arm patting oneself on the back

you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs

Changing the rules to let white have three extra queens would break chess.

I broke the RPG by training every member of my party to cast fireballs as well as use swords.

(transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.

ødelægge

gaming: to design or make a powerful, unbalancing but legal move


build

en-noun

build (countable and uncountable, plural builds)

Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan
Old English bytlan
Middle English bylden
English build
From Middle English bilden, bulden, bylden, from Old English byldan and bytlan, bytlian (“to build”), from Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan (“to build”), from Proto-Germanic *buþlą, *bōþlą (“house, dwelling, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”). Related to Old English botl (“building, house”). More at bottle.

inh

I made a build that looked like the Parthenon in that game.

In fact, thousands of D&D players constantly debate the virtues of various character builds (combinations of race, class, feat, and spell choices) and share their efforts with each other in hundreds of message boards and mailing lists.

2005, Bill Slavicsek, Richard Baker, Dungeons & Dragons For Dummies, page 279:

(gaming, slang, countable) A structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest, or a configuration of a character's items or skills, created by the player.


attack

Borrowed from French attaque, derived from the verb attaquer, from Italian attaccare (“to join, attach”) (used in attaccare battaglia (“to join battle”)), from Frankish *stakka (“stick”). Doublet of attach. Displaced native Old English on rǣsan (“to attack”) and onrǣs (“an attack”).

aanval

attempt to cause damage, injury, or death

Combat in Mimesis Online is nice and simple. You click on your target […] and then keep right-clicking your chosen attack from the drop down menu. Every time you right click on the attack, your character will swing, shoot, etc.

2002 March, Aaron Butler, “Mimesis Online (PC)”, in GameSpy.com, archived from the original on 2002-12-16:

Kleavor has several attacks that it's worth roughly memorising: a charge attack, where it runs at you quickly; a jump attack, that causes a pillar of rock to spike out from under the ground; and a spin attack that does damage in a circle around it.

2022 January 28, Chris Tapsell, “Pokémon Legends Arceus Kleavor boss fight: How to beat Kleavor”, in Eurogamer.ner:

An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of an opponent or enemy.

(gaming) Any of several specific maneuvers, skills, or special abilities that a character can use to inflict damage against opponents.


cheese

(gaming) The exploitation, or opportunity for exploitation, of an unintentional video game mechanic.


cheese

en-verb

cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)

cheeses (present singular third-person)
cheesing (participle present)
cheesed (participle past)
cheesed (past)

You can cheese most of the game using certain exploits.

The term cheesing is also pretty common. However, at least originally, ticking had a more specific meaning, ie hitting someone and then throwing after they block, whereas cheesing would be anything "cheap", and thereore depended on the user [...]

1993, Alex Werner, alt.games.sf2 (Usenet):

The moral of the story is, real strategy doesn't apply in WH40K. Find out where your opponent cheesed himself up and hit him there with everything you've got.

2000, cyber...@my-deja.com, rec.games.miniatures.warhammer (Usenet):

"Cheesing" means to shoot for the 9-ball (in 9-ball) before being on the 9-ball (i.e. shooting at the 1-ball to hit the 9-ball in). Basically if you can do it, you'll win the game (but perhaps not much respect).

2001, Samiel, rec.sport.billiard (Usenet):

For example, he was accused of "cheating" when he modified his in-game play techniques—without the use of cheat codes—but in ways that were unexpected to his opponents. Taking these actions (called cheesing by some in game play discourse) was unexpected, because the actions diverged from courses of action perceived as normal in the real-world activity the game simulated.

2008, Reed Stevens, Tom Satwicz, Laurie McCarthy, “In-Game, In-Room, In-World: Reconnecting Video Game Play to the Rest of Kids’ Lives”, in Katie Salen, editor, The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning), Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, →DOI, page 54:

(Internet slang, gaming, ambitransitive) To use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.)


mana

is-noun

mana n (genitive singular mana, no plural)

mana (genitive singular)
mana (indefinite nominative singular)
manað (definite nominative singular)
mana (accusative indefinite singular)
manað (accusative definite singular)
mana (dative indefinite singular)
mananu (dative definite singular)
mana (genitive indefinite singular)
manans (definite genitive singular)

Borrowed from English mana, from Proto-Polynesian *mana, from Proto-Oceanic *mana.


party

→ Bulgarian: парти (parti)

Chinese:

desc

Cantonese: → 派對 /派对 (paai³ deoi³), → party, ⇒ P

→ Mandarin: 趴體 /趴体 (pātǐ), 派對 /派对 (pàiduì)

→ Dhivehi: ޕާޓީ (pāṭī)

→ Japanese: パーティー (pātī)

→ Korean: 파티 (pati)

→ Maori: pāti

→ Malay: parti

→ Russian: парти (parti)

From Middle English party, partye, partie, from Anglo-Norman partie, from Old French partie (“side, part; portion, share; separation, division”, literally “that which is divided”), noun use of feminine of past participle of Old French partir (“to divide, separate”), from Latin partire (“to share, part, distribute, divide”), from pars (“a part, piece, a share”); see also part. First attested in c. 1300. Doublet of partita. The sense of communist party of a communist state derives Russian партия (partija), short for Коммунистическая партия (Kommunističeskaja partija).

حِزْب

group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.

гру́па

group of people travelling or attending an event together

business in the front, party in the back

(now rare in general sense) A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest, etc., or united in maintaining a cause, policy, or opinion in opposition to others; a faction.

(roleplaying games, online gaming) Active player characters organized into a single group.

joukko

online gaming: player characters organized into a single group


party

en-verb

party (third-person singular simple present parties, present participle partying, simple past and past participle partied)

parties (present singular third-person)
partying (participle present)
partied (participle past)
partied (past)

If you want to beat that monster, you should party with a healer.

(online gaming, intransitive) To form a party (with).


menu

→ Cebuano: menu

→ Gulf Arabic: منيو (minyu)

→ Japanese: メニュー

→ Thai: เมนู (mee-nuu)

→ Tok Pisin: menyu

Borrowed from French menu. Doublet of menudo and minute.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(computing, gaming) A list from which the user may select an operation to be performed, often done with a keyboard, mouse, or controller under a graphical user interface

قَائِمَة

computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed


scrub

en-noun

scrub (countable and uncountable, plural scrubs)

Late Middle English in the sense of "stunted tree," a variant of shrub, possibly under Old Norse influence.

(countable, online gaming, slang, derogatory) A player who whines when outmatched by other players, sometimes by blaming the game mechanics or even accusing the other players of cheating.


mash

en-verb

mash (third-person singular simple present mashes, present participle mashing, simple past and past participle mashed)

mashes (present singular third-person)
mashing (participle present)
mashed (participle past)
mashed (past)

From Middle English mashen, maschen, meshen, from Old English *māsċan, *mǣsċan, from Proto-Germanic *maiskijaną. Cognate with German maischen. Compare also Middle Low German meskewert, mēschewert (“beerwort”).

(transitive, informal, gaming) To press (a button) rapidly and repeatedly.


呢

吶
膩
逆
爾
邇
le
年
哖

(Hong Kong Cantonese, gaming) levels (in a video game)


寄

→ Vietnamese: gửi

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *krals): semantic 宀 (“house”) + phonetic 奇 (OC *kral, *ɡral) ― living away from home.
;"to commit to one's charge" (Lunyu), "to entrust, communicate" (Liji), > "send (a letter)"
;"translator, interpreter" > "an alternate name used for the Dongyi tribes during the Ming Dynasty"


服

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (服):
* → Japanese: 服(ふく) (fuku)
* → Korean: 복(服) (bok)
* → Vietnamese: phục (服)

Characters in the same phonetic series (服) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *bɯɡ): semantic 凡 (“tray”) + phonetic 𠬝 (*[b]ək, “to subdue”) – to serve. 凡 here has been corrupted into 舟 and subsequently 月.


magic

en-noun

magic (usually uncountable, plural magics)

magics (plural)
magick (alternative)
magicke (alternative obsolete)
magique (alternative obsolete)

→ Japanese: マジック (majikku)

→ Korean: 매직 (maejik)

From Middle English magik, magyk, from Old French magique (noun and adjective), from Latin magicus (adjective), magica (noun use of feminine form of magicus), from Ancient Greek μαγικός (magikós, “magical”), from μάγος (mágos, “magus”). Ultimately from Old Iranian, probably derived from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂gʰ- (“to be able to, to help; power, sorcerer”). Displaced native Old English ġealdor (survived in Middle English galder), and dwimmer.

toorkuns

use of rituals or actions exploiting the supernatural

toorkuns

ritual associated with supernatural magic or mysticism

աճպարարություն

illusion performed to give the appearance of magic or the supernatural

I learned a new magic after rescuing the tree fairy.

The application of rituals or actions, especially those based on occult knowledge, to subdue or manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces in order to have some benefit from them.

(gaming, countable) The ability to cast a magic spell.


角

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (角):
* → Japanese: 角(かく) (kaku)
* → Korean: 각(角) (gak)
* → Vietnamese: giác (角)

→ Khmer: កាក់ (kak)
→ English: kak

→ Thai: กั๊ก (gák)

→ Vietnamese: góc

/t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/

/t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/

Characters in the same phonetic series (角) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Pictogram (象形) – a horn. A conservative version is 𧢲. Similar but unrelated to 甬, 用, and the bottom part of 備.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *krəw (“horn; angle; corner”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan རྭ (rwa, “horn”), Garo grong (“horn”), Jingpho nrung (“horn”), Chepang रोङः (roŋʔ, “horn”), 觡 (OC *kraːɡ, “antler”). The Tibeto-Burman *-ŋ final variant is reflected in 觥 (OC *kʷraːŋ, “drinking vessel made from animal horn”) (Schuessler, 2007). Possibly also related to 鹿 (OC *b·roːɡ, “deer”) (Sagart, 1999).
A derivative is 餃 (“stuffed dumpling”), named for its horn-like shape (Norman, 1988).
It is probably unrelated with Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂nós (“horn”) ( < *ḱerh₂- (“horn”)) and Proto-Semitic *ḳarn- (“horn”) despite the phonological and semantic resemblance between the three.

och-l

(gaming) Short for 角色 (juésè). (Classifier: 隻／只)


colore

From Latin color, from Old Latin colos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to hide, conceal”).


nick

en-verb

nick (third-person singular simple present nicks, present participle nicking, simple past and past participle nicked)

nicks (present singular third-person)
nicking (participle present)
nicked (participle past)
nicked (past)

The noun is derived from Late Middle English nik (“notch, tally; nock of an arrow”). Its further etymology is unknown; a connection with nock (“notch in a bow to hold the bowstring; notch at the rear of an arrow that fits the bowstring; cleft in the buttocks”) has not been clearly established.
The verb appears to be derived from the noun, though the available evidence shows that some of the verb senses predate the noun senses. No connection with words in Germanic languages such as Danish nikke (“to nod”), Middle Dutch nicken (“to bend; to bow”) (modern Dutch knikken (“to nod”)), Middle Low German nicken (“to bend over; to sink”), Middle High German nicken (“to bend; to depress”) (modern German nicken (“to nod”)), Middle Low German knicken (“to bend; to snap”) (modern German knicken (“to bend; to break”), Old Frisian hnekka (“to nod”), and Swedish nicka (“to nod”), has been clearly established.

unknown

further etymology is unknown

cog

My old luck: I never nick'd ſeven that I did not throw ames ace three times following.

1773, [Oliver] Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer: Or, The Mistakes of a Night. A Comedy. […], London: […] F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC, Act III, page 63:

The points to nick each main have been mentioned before, and the table on dice will show how many chances there are to throw each of these points with 2 dice, which together form the numerator, and 36 (being all the chances on 2 dice) the denominator of the fraction that expresses the probability. If 5 is the main, 5 will be the only nick, and the chances to throw 5 being 4, ⁴⁄₃₆ is the probability, which is 8 to 1 against nicking 5, and the same against nicking 9.

[1814], William Rouse, “Problem XXX. What are the Probabilities of Nicking each Main?”, in The Doctrine of Chances, or The Theory of Gaming, Made Easy to Every Person Acquainted with Common Arithmetic, […], London: Printed by Gye & Balne, […], for the author, published by Lackington, Allen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 150:

Tom Moor was fond of gaming, and often lost large sums of money; finding his business neglected in his absence, he had a small hazard table set up in one corner of his dining-room, and invited a party of his friends to play at it. [...] [O]ne of them being a constant winner, the others would say, "Damn it, how he nicks them."

1888, “The Jackdaw”, in W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, editor, Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (The Camelot Series), London: Walter Scott, […]; New York, N.Y.: Thomas Whittaker; Toronto, Ont.: W. J. Gage & Co., →OCLC, page 304:

(transitive, obsolete) To fit into or suit, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.

(transitive, gaming) To throw or turn up (a number when playing dice); to hit upon.


PC

en-noun

PC (countable and uncountable, plural PCs)

player character
player character#English

(gaming) Initialism of player character.


own

en-verb

own (third-person singular simple present owns, present participle owning, simple past and past participle owned)

owns (present singular third-person)
owning (participle present)
owned (participle past)
owned (past)

A back-formation from owner, owning and own (adjective). Compare Old English āgnian, Dutch eigenen, German eignen, Swedish ägna.

(online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above.


micro

en-noun

micro (countable and uncountable, plural micros)

From Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”), or shortened form for modern words formed from its derivative micro-.

(gaming, slang, uncountable) micromanagement


micro

en-verb

micro (third-person singular simple present micros or microes, present participle microing, simple past and past participle microed)

micros (present singular third-person)
microes (present singular third-person)
microing (participle present)
microed (participle past)
microed (past)


(gaming, often derogatory) Abbreviation of one-shot or one-shotted.


carry

carry (third-person singular simple present carries, present participle carrying, simple past and past participle carried)

carries (present singular third-person)
carrying (participle present)
carried (participle past)
carried (past)

borrow

the equivalent reverse procedure in the inverse operation of subtraction

→ Cantonese: carry

From Middle English carien, from Anglo-Norman carier (modern French charrier); from a derivative of Latin carrus (“four-wheeled baggage wagon”), ultimately of Gaulish origin.

tīhei

on the back but held in place with hands

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails

one can't carry two watermelons under one arm

Despite zero goals and zero assists, she still stands out for carrying her team's defense.

The other outfielders had no hustle, but fortunately the centerfielder carried them.

He absolutely carried, to the point of killing the entire enemy team by himself.

(gaming, sports) (transitive or, rarely, intransitive) To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success or for counteracting teammates' underperformance.


main

en-verb

main (third-person singular simple present mains, present participle maining, simple past and past participle mained)

mains (present singular third-person)
maining (participle present)
mained (participle past)
mained (past)

From Middle English mayn, main, maine, mæin, meyn, from main (noun) (see further at etymology 2); compare Old English mæġen (“strong, main, principal”) (used in combination) and Old Norse megn, megenn (“strong, main”).
The word is cognate with Old High German megīn (“strong, mighty”) (modern German Möge, Vermögen (“power, wealth”)), and also akin to Old English magan (“to be able to”). See also may.

cog

He mains the same character as me in that game.

What race do you main and what is your favourite race to beat?

For new players, I recommend maining the dagger and using the axe as a backup weapon.

Now, full disclosure: I too main Soldier 76 in "Overwatch" (by the way, the term "maining" is parlance for the most-often used character you play in a given game).

2017 January 25, Dave Smith, “After Weeks of Bugging Him on Twitter, Elon Musk just Told Me His ‘Dark Secret’”, in Business Insider, archived from the original on 2017-03-30:

(transitive, gaming) To mainly play a specific character or side, or with specific equipment, during a game.


main

Uncertain; probably from the adjective main. Evidence is lacking for a derivation from French main (“hand”).

That writing is but juſt like dice, / And lucky mains make people wiſe: / That jumbled words, if fortune throw 'em, / Shall, well as Dryden, form a poem; […]

1689 May 14, Mr. Prior [Matthew Prior?], “Epistle to Fleetwood Shephard, Esq.”, in “Mr. Gentleman” [pseudonym], The New Pleasing Instructor: Or, Entertaining Moralist. […], York, Yorkshire: Printed by C. Etherington, for John Bell, […] and C. Etherington, […], published 1772, →OCLC, page 370:

1876, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round
That no minute might be wasted, the gay gallants of the time generally had a dice-box and a cast of dice in their pockets. This was convenient in the extreme, as, in the intervals of racing, a main could be thrown […]

Well-for the rest, will you throw a main?

1894, Stanley J. Weyman, chapter VIII, in Under the Red Robe:

(obsolete, gaming) A hand or match in a game of dice.

Euery man hath not beene brought vp in the knowledge of toungs. And it chanceth often to the reader, as it doth to diceplayers, that gaine more by the bye then by the maine.

1598, Richard Barckley, “To the Reader”, in A Discourse of the Felicitie of Man: Or His Summum Bonum, London: Printed [by Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonby, →OCLC; republished as “To the Reader”, in A Discovrse of the Felicite of Man. Or His Summum Bonum, newly corrected and augmented edition, London: Printed [by James Roberts] for VVilliam Ponsonby, 1603, →OCLC:

I had such a run of luck last night, with five for the main, and seven to five all night, until those ruffians wanted to pay me with Altamont’s bill upon me. The luck turned from that minute. Never held the box again for three mains, and came away cleared out, leaving that infernal cheque behind me.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 44, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

(obsolete, gaming) The largest throw in a match at dice; in the game of hazard, a number from one to nine called out by a person before the dice are thrown.

[W]ere it good / To ſet the exact wealth of al our ſtates / Al at one caſt? to ſet ſo rich a maine / On the nice hazard of one doubtfull houre?

c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

Is it good / To bet all of our wealth / On one throw of the dice? To place so high a stake / On the risky hazard of one doubtful hour?

(obsolete, gaming) A stake played for at dice.

My lord was hunting all day when the ſeaſon admitted; he frequented all the cockfights and fairs in the country, and would ride twenty miles to ſee a main fought, or two clowns break their heads at a cudgelling match; […]

1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, “After Good Fortune Comes Evil”, in The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. […] , volume I, London: […] Smith, Elder, & Company, […], →OCLC, page 171:

(obsolete, gaming, sports) A sporting contest or match, especially a cockfighting match.


RPG

en-verb

RPG (third-person singular simple present RPGs, present participle RPGing or RPG-ing or RPG'ing, simple past and past participle RPGed or RPG'ed or RPG'd)

RPGs (present singular third-person)
RPGing (participle present)
RPG-ing (participle present)
RPG'ing (participle present)
RPGed (participle past)
RPGed (past)
RPG'ed (participle past)
RPG'ed (past)
RPG'd (participle past)
RPG'd (past)

Initialism. When applied to a "rocket-propelled grenade" it derives from Russian РПГ (RPG), initialism of ручной противотанковый гранатомёт (ručnoj protivotankovyj granatomjót, “hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher”), of which "rocket-propelled grenade" is a backronym (though an accurate description of the weapon system).

When I got to my new school, it didn’t take me too long to find a group to hang out with. We RPGed, talked books, movies, and comics. We played video games, both in person and in co-op.

2016, David Liss, chapter 2, in Randoms, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, page 9:

When you start RPGing, you describe an action your character is taking. Sometimes your DM will interject, asking you to make a test for success (typically a dice roll).

2016, Teri Litorco, The Civilized Guide to Tabletop Gaming: Rules Every Gamer Must Live By, Adams Media, page 145:

None of them really wanted to game without Beth. For one, it didn’t seem fair, and for another, the facts that she had a great imagination and really no concept of how RPGing was “supposed” to work meant she sprang stuff on the group that had livened up the games no end.

2020 February 22, Mercedes Lackey, Cody Martin, Breaking Silence, Baen Books:

(intransitive, gaming) To play a roleplaying game.


rope

rope (nominative singular)
ropet (nominative plural)
rope (accusative nominative singular)
ropet (accusative nominative plural)
ropen (accusative genitive singular)
ropet (accusative genitive plural)
ropen (genitive singular)
ropejen (genitive plural)
ropea (partitive singular)
ropeja (partitive plural)
ropessa (inessive singular)
ropeissa (inessive plural)
ropesta (elative singular)
ropeista (elative plural)
ropeen (illative singular)
ropeihin (illative plural)
ropella (adessive singular)
ropeilla (adessive plural)
ropelta (ablative singular)
ropeilta (ablative plural)
ropelle (allative singular)
ropeille (allative plural)
ropena (essive singular)
ropeina (essive plural)
ropeksi (singular translative)
ropeiksi (plural translative)
ropetta (abessive singular)
ropeitta (abessive plural)
ropein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
ropeni (nominative singular)
ropeni (nominative plural)
ropeni (accusative nominative singular)
ropeni (accusative nominative plural)
ropeni (accusative genitive singular)
ropeni (accusative genitive plural)
ropeni (genitive singular)
ropejeni (genitive plural)
ropeani (partitive singular)
ropejani (partitive plural)
ropessani (inessive singular)
ropeissani (inessive plural)
ropestani (elative singular)
ropeistani (elative plural)
ropeeni (illative singular)
ropeihini (illative plural)
ropellani (adessive singular)
ropeillani (adessive plural)
ropeltani (ablative singular)
ropeiltani (ablative plural)
ropelleni (allative singular)
ropeilleni (allative plural)
ropenani (essive singular)
ropeinani (essive plural)
ropekseni (singular translative)
ropeikseni (plural translative)
ropettani (abessive singular)
ropeittani (abessive plural)
ropeineni (comitative plural)
ropesi (nominative singular)
ropesi (nominative plural)
ropesi (accusative nominative singular)
ropesi (accusative nominative plural)
ropesi (accusative genitive singular)
ropesi (accusative genitive plural)
ropesi (genitive singular)
ropejesi (genitive plural)
ropeasi (partitive singular)
ropejasi (partitive plural)
ropessasi (inessive singular)
ropeissasi (inessive plural)
ropestasi (elative singular)
ropeistasi (elative plural)
ropeesi (illative singular)
ropeihisi (illative plural)
ropellasi (adessive singular)
ropeillasi (adessive plural)
ropeltasi (ablative singular)
ropeiltasi (ablative plural)
ropellesi (allative singular)
ropeillesi (allative plural)
ropenasi (essive singular)
ropeinasi (essive plural)
ropeksesi (singular translative)
ropeiksesi (plural translative)
ropettasi (abessive singular)
ropeittasi (abessive plural)
ropeinesi (comitative plural)
ropemme (nominative singular)
ropemme (nominative plural)
ropemme (accusative nominative singular)
ropemme (accusative nominative plural)
ropemme (accusative genitive singular)
ropemme (accusative genitive plural)
ropemme (genitive singular)
ropejemme (genitive plural)
ropeamme (partitive singular)
ropejamme (partitive plural)
ropessamme (inessive singular)
ropeissamme (inessive plural)
ropestamme (elative singular)
ropeistamme (elative plural)
ropeemme (illative singular)
ropeihimme (illative plural)
ropellamme (adessive singular)
ropeillamme (adessive plural)
ropeltamme (ablative singular)
ropeiltamme (ablative plural)
ropellemme (allative singular)
ropeillemme (allative plural)
ropenamme (essive singular)
ropeinamme (essive plural)
ropeksemme (singular translative)
ropeiksemme (plural translative)
ropettamme (abessive singular)
ropeittamme (abessive plural)
ropeinemme (comitative plural)
ropenne (nominative singular)
ropenne (nominative plural)
ropenne (accusative nominative singular)
ropenne (accusative nominative plural)
ropenne (accusative genitive singular)
ropenne (accusative genitive plural)
ropenne (genitive singular)
ropejenne (genitive plural)
ropeanne (partitive singular)
ropejanne (partitive plural)
ropessanne (inessive singular)
ropeissanne (inessive plural)
ropestanne (elative singular)
ropeistanne (elative plural)
ropeenne (illative singular)
ropeihinne (illative plural)
ropellanne (adessive singular)
ropeillanne (adessive plural)
ropeltanne (ablative singular)
ropeiltanne (ablative plural)
ropellenne (allative singular)
ropeillenne (allative plural)
ropenanne (essive singular)
ropeinanne (essive plural)
ropeksenne (singular translative)
ropeiksenne (plural translative)
ropettanne (abessive singular)
ropeittanne (abessive plural)
ropeinenne (comitative plural)
ropensa (nominative singular)
ropensa (nominative plural)
ropensa (accusative nominative singular)
ropensa (accusative nominative plural)
ropensa (accusative genitive singular)
ropensa (accusative genitive plural)
ropensa (genitive singular)
ropejensa (genitive plural)
ropeaan (partitive singular)
ropeansa (partitive singular)
ropejaan (partitive plural)
ropejansa (partitive plural)
ropessaan (inessive singular)
ropessansa (inessive singular)
ropeissaan (inessive plural)
ropeissansa (inessive plural)
ropestaan (elative singular)
ropestansa (elative singular)
ropeistaan (elative plural)
ropeistansa (elative plural)
ropeensa (illative singular)
ropeihinsa (illative plural)
ropellaan (adessive singular)
ropellansa (adessive singular)
ropeillaan (adessive plural)
ropeillansa (adessive plural)
ropeltaan (ablative singular)
ropeltansa (ablative singular)
ropeiltaan (ablative plural)
ropeiltansa (ablative plural)
ropelleen (allative singular)
ropellensa (allative singular)
ropeilleen (allative plural)
ropeillensa (allative plural)
ropenaan (essive singular)
ropenansa (essive singular)
ropeinaan (essive plural)
ropeinansa (essive plural)
ropekseen (singular translative)
ropeksensa (singular translative)
ropeikseen (plural translative)
ropeiksensa (plural translative)
ropettaan (abessive singular)
ropettansa (abessive singular)
ropeittaan (abessive plural)
ropeittansa (abessive plural)
ropeineen (comitative plural)
ropeinensa (comitative plural)

(gaming) clipping of roolipeli (“RPG, role-playing game”)


draft

en-noun

draft (countable and uncountable, plural drafts)

A phonetic spelling of draught (compare laughter), from Middle English draught, draght (“that which is pulled; that which is drawn up, a design”), from Old English *dreaht, *dræht, from Proto-West Germanic *drahti, *drahtu, from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz (“a pulling, drawing”), equivalent to draw (“to draw, drag”) + -t. Cognate with Dutch dracht, German Tracht, Icelandic dráttur.

inh

(gaming) A style of play in collectible card games, where players select from a shared pool of cards.


draft

en-verb

draft (third-person singular simple present drafts, present participle drafting, simple past and past participle drafted)

drafts (present singular third-person)
drafting (participle present)
drafted (participle past)
drafted (past)
draught (alternative)

подбирам

to select someone for a particular role or purpose

(gaming) To play a collectible card game by selecting from a shared pool of cards.


seed

seed (third-person singular simple present seeds, present participle seeding, simple past and past participle seeded)

seeds (present singular third-person)
seeding (participle present)
seeded (participle past)
seeded (past)
sede (alternative obsolete)

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From Middle English seed, sede, side, from Old English sēd, sǣd (“seed, that which is sown”), from Proto-West Germanic *sād, from Proto-Germanic *sēdą, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, throw”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Säid (“seed”), West Frisian sied (“seed”), Dutch zaad (“seed”), Low German Saad (“seed”), German Saat (“seed; sowing”), Danish sæd (“seed”), Swedish säd (“seed”), Icelandic sæði (“seed”), Latin satiō (“seeding, time of sowing, season”). More at sow.

cog

Everybody likes to second‐guess computers, including who seed the pros. Nothing could have better exposed the vulnerability of the computer seeding than the spectacle of clay‐court experts looking like weekend hackers on grass.

1979 July 2, “Reflection on the Seedings Fills Pause at Wimbledon”, in The New York Times:

(sports, gaming) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.


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.


lagi

lagi (nominative singular)
lagit (nominative plural)
lagi (accusative nominative singular)
lagit (accusative nominative plural)
lagin (accusative genitive singular)
lagit (accusative genitive plural)
lagin (genitive singular)
lagien (genitive plural)
lagia (partitive singular)
lageja (partitive plural)
lagissa (inessive singular)
lageissa (inessive plural)
lagista (elative singular)
lageista (elative plural)
lagiin (illative singular)
lageihin (illative plural)
lagilla (adessive singular)
lageilla (adessive plural)
lagilta (ablative singular)
lageilta (ablative plural)
lagille (allative singular)
lageille (allative plural)
lagina (essive singular)
lageina (essive plural)
lagiksi (singular translative)
lageiksi (plural translative)
lagitta (abessive singular)
lageitta (abessive plural)
lagein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
lagini (nominative singular)
lagini (nominative plural)
lagini (accusative nominative singular)
lagini (accusative nominative plural)
lagini (accusative genitive singular)
lagini (accusative genitive plural)
lagini (genitive singular)
lagieni (genitive plural)
lagiani (partitive singular)
lagejani (partitive plural)
lagissani (inessive singular)
lageissani (inessive plural)
lagistani (elative singular)
lageistani (elative plural)
lagiini (illative singular)
lageihini (illative plural)
lagillani (adessive singular)
lageillani (adessive plural)
lagiltani (ablative singular)
lageiltani (ablative plural)
lagilleni (allative singular)
lageilleni (allative plural)
laginani (essive singular)
lageinani (essive plural)
lagikseni (singular translative)
lageikseni (plural translative)
lagittani (abessive singular)
lageittani (abessive plural)
lageineni (comitative plural)
lagisi (nominative singular)
lagisi (nominative plural)
lagisi (accusative nominative singular)
lagisi (accusative nominative plural)
lagisi (accusative genitive singular)
lagisi (accusative genitive plural)
lagisi (genitive singular)
lagiesi (genitive plural)
lagiasi (partitive singular)
lagejasi (partitive plural)
lagissasi (inessive singular)
lageissasi (inessive plural)
lagistasi (elative singular)
lageistasi (elative plural)
lagiisi (illative singular)
lageihisi (illative plural)
lagillasi (adessive singular)
lageillasi (adessive plural)
lagiltasi (ablative singular)
lageiltasi (ablative plural)
lagillesi (allative singular)
lageillesi (allative plural)
laginasi (essive singular)
lageinasi (essive plural)
lagiksesi (singular translative)
lageiksesi (plural translative)
lagittasi (abessive singular)
lageittasi (abessive plural)
lageinesi (comitative plural)
lagimme (nominative singular)
lagimme (nominative plural)
lagimme (accusative nominative singular)
lagimme (accusative nominative plural)
lagimme (accusative genitive singular)
lagimme (accusative genitive plural)
lagimme (genitive singular)
lagiemme (genitive plural)
lagiamme (partitive singular)
lagejamme (partitive plural)
lagissamme (inessive singular)
lageissamme (inessive plural)
lagistamme (elative singular)
lageistamme (elative plural)
lagiimme (illative singular)
lageihimme (illative plural)
lagillamme (adessive singular)
lageillamme (adessive plural)
lagiltamme (ablative singular)
lageiltamme (ablative plural)
lagillemme (allative singular)
lageillemme (allative plural)
laginamme (essive singular)
lageinamme (essive plural)
lagiksemme (singular translative)
lageiksemme (plural translative)
lagittamme (abessive singular)
lageittamme (abessive plural)
lageinemme (comitative plural)
laginne (nominative singular)
laginne (nominative plural)
laginne (accusative nominative singular)
laginne (accusative nominative plural)
laginne (accusative genitive singular)
laginne (accusative genitive plural)
laginne (genitive singular)
lagienne (genitive plural)
lagianne (partitive singular)
lagejanne (partitive plural)
lagissanne (inessive singular)
lageissanne (inessive plural)
lagistanne (elative singular)
lageistanne (elative plural)
lagiinne (illative singular)
lageihinne (illative plural)
lagillanne (adessive singular)
lageillanne (adessive plural)
lagiltanne (ablative singular)
lageiltanne (ablative plural)
lagillenne (allative singular)
lageillenne (allative plural)
laginanne (essive singular)
lageinanne (essive plural)
lagiksenne (singular translative)
lageiksenne (plural translative)
lagittanne (abessive singular)
lageittanne (abessive plural)
lageinenne (comitative plural)
laginsa (nominative singular)
laginsa (nominative plural)
laginsa (accusative nominative singular)
laginsa (accusative nominative plural)
laginsa (accusative genitive singular)
laginsa (accusative genitive plural)
laginsa (genitive singular)
lagiensa (genitive plural)
lagiaan (partitive singular)
lagiansa (partitive singular)
lagejaan (partitive plural)
lagejansa (partitive plural)
lagissaan (inessive singular)
lagissansa (inessive singular)
lageissaan (inessive plural)
lageissansa (inessive plural)
lagistaan (elative singular)
lagistansa (elative singular)
lageistaan (elative plural)
lageistansa (elative plural)
lagiinsa (illative singular)
lageihinsa (illative plural)
lagillaan (adessive singular)
lagillansa (adessive singular)
lageillaan (adessive plural)
lageillansa (adessive plural)
lagiltaan (ablative singular)
lagiltansa (ablative singular)
lageiltaan (ablative plural)
lageiltansa (ablative plural)
lagilleen (allative singular)
lagillensa (allative singular)
lageilleen (allative plural)
lageillensa (allative plural)
laginaan (essive singular)
laginansa (essive singular)
lageinaan (essive plural)
lageinansa (essive plural)
lagikseen (singular translative)
lagiksensa (singular translative)
lageikseen (plural translative)
lageiksensa (plural translative)
lagittaan (abessive singular)
lagittansa (abessive singular)
lageittaan (abessive plural)
lageittansa (abessive plural)
lageineen (comitative plural)
lageinensa (comitative plural)


leaven

de-verb

leaven (third-person singular present leavt, past tense leavte, past participle geleaved or geleavt, auxiliary haben or sein)

leavt (present singular third-person)
leavte (past)
geleaved (participle past)
geleavt (participle past)
haben (auxiliary)
sein (auxiliary)

(slang, gaming, otherwise rare) to leave


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

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.

pudotettu esine

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


passive

From Middle English passyf, passyve, from Middle French, French passif, from Latin passivus (“serving to express the suffering of an action; in late Latin literally capable of suffering or feeling”), from passus, past participle of pati (“to suffer”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hurt”); compare patient.


arcade

→ Danish: arkade

→ Dutch: arcade

→ English: arcade

→ German: Arkade

→ Norwegian Bokmål: arkade

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: arkade

→ Swedish: arkad

Borrowed from Italian arcata. By surface analysis, arc + -ade.


enchant

enchants (plural)
enchaunt (alternative)
inchant (alternative)
inchaunt (alternative)

/ɪnˈt͡ʃɑːnt/

/ɛnˈt͡ʃɑːnt/

/ɘnˈt͡ʃɐːnt/

/ˈɪnˌt͡ʃænt/

/ˈɪnˌt͡ʃɑːnt/

From Middle English enchaunten, from Old French enchanter, from Latin incantāre.
Doublet of incant.

The top button is an enchant you can get with 1 lapis, the middle will need 2 lapis, and the bottom will need 3. In addition to lapis, you will need to have a certain number of experience points to get an enchant.

2015, Megan Miller, The Big Book of Hacks for Minecrafters: The Biggest Unofficial Guide to Tips and Tricks That Other Guides Won't Teach You, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:


monster

monsters (plural)
monstre (alternative obsolete)

→ German: Monster

→ Japanese: モンスター (monsutā)

→ Korean: 몬스터 (monseuteo)

From Middle English monstre, from Old French monstre, mostre, moustre, from Latin mōnstrum.

monster

anti-social person, especially a criminal

non-player character
non-player character

(gaming) A non-player character that player(s) fight against in role-playing games; a mob


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. The 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.


clan

nl-noun

clan m (plural clans, diminutive clannetje n)

clans (plural)
clannetje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: clan

→ Indonesian: klan

Borrowed from English clan, from Scottish Gaelic clann (“progeny, race”), from Old Irish cland, from Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). As such, it is a doublet of plant (“plant, flora”).

(gaming) a group of gamers playing on the same team, a clan


vanilla

en-noun

vanilla (countable and uncountable, plural vanillas)

vanillas (plural)
vanille (alternative archaic)

Borrowed from Spanish vainilla, a diminutive form of vaina (“pod”). "Plain" senses derive from the perceived plainness of vanilla ice cream.

(uncountable, gaming, slang) An unmodded version of a game.


joystick

joystick (nominative singular)
joystickit (nominative plural)
joystick (accusative nominative singular)
joystickit (accusative nominative plural)
joystickin (accusative genitive singular)
joystickit (accusative genitive plural)
joystickin (genitive singular)
joystickien (genitive plural)
joystickia (partitive singular)
joystickeja (partitive plural)
joystickissa (inessive singular)
joystickeissa (inessive plural)
joystickista (elative singular)
joystickeista (elative plural)
joystickiin (illative singular)
joystickeihin (illative plural)
joystickilla (adessive singular)
joystickeilla (adessive plural)
joystickilta (ablative singular)
joystickeilta (ablative plural)
joystickille (allative singular)
joystickeille (allative plural)
joystickina (essive singular)
joystickeina (essive plural)
joystickiksi (singular translative)
joystickeiksi (plural translative)
joystickitta (abessive singular)
joystickeitta (abessive plural)
joystickein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
joystickini (nominative singular)
joystickini (nominative plural)
joystickini (accusative nominative singular)
joystickini (accusative nominative plural)
joystickini (accusative genitive singular)
joystickini (accusative genitive plural)
joystickini (genitive singular)
joystickieni (genitive plural)
joystickiani (partitive singular)
joystickejani (partitive plural)
joystickissani (inessive singular)
joystickeissani (inessive plural)
joystickistani (elative singular)
joystickeistani (elative plural)
joystickiini (illative singular)
joystickeihini (illative plural)
joystickillani (adessive singular)
joystickeillani (adessive plural)
joystickiltani (ablative singular)
joystickeiltani (ablative plural)
joystickilleni (allative singular)
joystickeilleni (allative plural)
joystickinani (essive singular)
joystickeinani (essive plural)
joystickikseni (singular translative)
joystickeikseni (plural translative)
joystickittani (abessive singular)
joystickeittani (abessive plural)
joystickeineni (comitative plural)
joystickisi (nominative singular)
joystickisi (nominative plural)
joystickisi (accusative nominative singular)
joystickisi (accusative nominative plural)
joystickisi (accusative genitive singular)
joystickisi (accusative genitive plural)
joystickisi (genitive singular)
joystickiesi (genitive plural)
joystickiasi (partitive singular)
joystickejasi (partitive plural)
joystickissasi (inessive singular)
joystickeissasi (inessive plural)
joystickistasi (elative singular)
joystickeistasi (elative plural)
joystickiisi (illative singular)
joystickeihisi (illative plural)
joystickillasi (adessive singular)
joystickeillasi (adessive plural)
joystickiltasi (ablative singular)
joystickeiltasi (ablative plural)
joystickillesi (allative singular)
joystickeillesi (allative plural)
joystickinasi (essive singular)
joystickeinasi (essive plural)
joystickiksesi (singular translative)
joystickeiksesi (plural translative)
joystickittasi (abessive singular)
joystickeittasi (abessive plural)
joystickeinesi (comitative plural)
joystickimme (nominative singular)
joystickimme (nominative plural)
joystickimme (accusative nominative singular)
joystickimme (accusative nominative plural)
joystickimme (accusative genitive singular)
joystickimme (accusative genitive plural)
joystickimme (genitive singular)
joystickiemme (genitive plural)
joystickiamme (partitive singular)
joystickejamme (partitive plural)
joystickissamme (inessive singular)
joystickeissamme (inessive plural)
joystickistamme (elative singular)
joystickeistamme (elative plural)
joystickiimme (illative singular)
joystickeihimme (illative plural)
joystickillamme (adessive singular)
joystickeillamme (adessive plural)
joystickiltamme (ablative singular)
joystickeiltamme (ablative plural)
joystickillemme (allative singular)
joystickeillemme (allative plural)
joystickinamme (essive singular)
joystickeinamme (essive plural)
joystickiksemme (singular translative)
joystickeiksemme (plural translative)
joystickittamme (abessive singular)
joystickeittamme (abessive plural)
joystickeinemme (comitative plural)
joystickinne (nominative singular)
joystickinne (nominative plural)
joystickinne (accusative nominative singular)
joystickinne (accusative nominative plural)
joystickinne (accusative genitive singular)
joystickinne (accusative genitive plural)
joystickinne (genitive singular)
joystickienne (genitive plural)
joystickianne (partitive singular)
joystickejanne (partitive plural)
joystickissanne (inessive singular)
joystickeissanne (inessive plural)
joystickistanne (elative singular)
joystickeistanne (elative plural)
joystickiinne (illative singular)
joystickeihinne (illative plural)
joystickillanne (adessive singular)
joystickeillanne (adessive plural)
joystickiltanne (ablative singular)
joystickeiltanne (ablative plural)
joystickillenne (allative singular)
joystickeillenne (allative plural)
joystickinanne (essive singular)
joystickeinanne (essive plural)
joystickiksenne (singular translative)
joystickeiksenne (plural translative)
joystickittanne (abessive singular)
joystickeittanne (abessive plural)
joystickeinenne (comitative plural)
joystickinsa (nominative singular)
joystickinsa (nominative plural)
joystickinsa (accusative nominative singular)
joystickinsa (accusative nominative plural)
joystickinsa (accusative genitive singular)
joystickinsa (accusative genitive plural)
joystickinsa (genitive singular)
joystickiensa (genitive plural)
joystickiaan (partitive singular)
joystickiansa (partitive singular)
joystickejaan (partitive plural)
joystickejansa (partitive plural)
joystickissaan (inessive singular)
joystickissansa (inessive singular)
joystickeissaan (inessive plural)
joystickeissansa (inessive plural)
joystickistaan (elative singular)
joystickistansa (elative singular)
joystickeistaan (elative plural)
joystickeistansa (elative plural)
joystickiinsa (illative singular)
joystickeihinsa (illative plural)
joystickillaan (adessive singular)
joystickillansa (adessive singular)
joystickeillaan (adessive plural)
joystickeillansa (adessive plural)
joystickiltaan (ablative singular)
joystickiltansa (ablative singular)
joystickeiltaan (ablative plural)
joystickeiltansa (ablative plural)
joystickilleen (allative singular)
joystickillensa (allative singular)
joystickeilleen (allative plural)
joystickeillensa (allative plural)
joystickinaan (essive singular)
joystickinansa (essive singular)
joystickeinaan (essive plural)
joystickeinansa (essive plural)
joystickikseen (singular translative)
joystickiksensa (singular translative)
joystickeikseen (plural translative)
joystickeiksensa (plural translative)
joystickittaan (abessive singular)
joystickittansa (abessive singular)
joystickeittaan (abessive plural)
joystickeittansa (abessive plural)
joystickeineen (comitative plural)
joystickeinensa (comitative plural)

Unadapted borrowing from English joystick.

ubor

(especially gaming) Synonym of sauvaohjain (“joystick”)


rare

From Middle English rare, from Old French rare, rere (“rare, uncommon”), from Latin rārus (“loose, spaced apart, thin, infrequent”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“friable, thin”). Replaced native Middle English gesen (“rare, scarce”) (from Old English gǣsne), Middle English seld (“rare, uncommon”) (from Old English selden), and Middle English seldscene (“rare, rarely seen, infrequent”) (from Old English seldsēne).

cog

Most of the time, you do this by trading low-valued rares for more valuable ones or trading uncommons for rares. Other times it's trading cards that are in print for ones that are out of print, or low-value rares for good uncommons.

1995, George Baxter, Larry W. Smith, Mastering Magic Cards, page 116:


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)

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.

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.


res

Your magic res doesn't need to be that high.


melee

en-noun

melee (countable and uncountable, plural melees)

melees (plural)
mêlée (alternative)
melée (alternative)

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

Honestly, a lot of what this episode did right had more to do with the scenes that surrounded the enormous melee than those hyper-edited clashes of swords.

2019 April 28, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones Suffers the Fog of War in the Battle against the Dead (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2021-05-31:

The attack also afforded Helena to a front-seat view of literal air-to-air melee combat, as one Wildcat pilot of the Cactus Air Force, who was swooping in to help break up the attack, found himself out of machine-gun ammo; instead, he dropped his landing gear, positioned himself above the nearest bomber, and begun beating it to death, in midair, using his landing gear as clubs. After a bit of evasive action that the fighter easily kept up with, the repeated slamming broke something important, and the bomber spiralled down into the sea.

2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 5:50 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 2022-10-17:

(especially military, gaming) A battle fought at close range, (especially) one not involving ranged weapons; hand-to-hand combat; brawling.

(gaming, usually capitalized) The video game Super Smash Bros. Melee.


melee

A melee weapon is used to attack a target within 5 feet of you, whereas a ranged weapon is used to attack a target at a distance.

2018, Wizards of the Coast, Basic Rules for Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) Fifth Edition (5e):

(gaming) Of a weapon: used in close-range combat, e.g. a sword. Compare with ranged.

(gaming) Of a character, using melee weapons.


aggro

From a clipping of aggravation + -o (diminutive suffix), influenced by aggressive.

To reduce one player's aggro level, the other must build up his own.

2007, Bendik Stang, Morten A. Osterholt, Erik Hoftun, The Book of Games Volume 2: The Ultimate Reference on PC & Video Games, page 98:

What isn't so gimmicky is the Aggro System, where you draw fire onto yourself by acting aggressive, while your partner sneaks off blindsiding distracted enemies. Aggro depends on how big your current weapon is and how often you act aggressive.

We asked for an ability to trasnfer^([sic]) our aggro to another player—were told that could cause some abuse.

2010, Luke Cuddy, John Nordlinger, editors, World of Warcraft and Philosophy: Wrath of the Philosopher King, page 187:

(gaming) A measure of how belligerent a player is – a high value may inspire either avoidance or preemptive hostile action from enemies.

You just pulled aggro off the tank and wiped the raid.

(gaming) Hostile attention from an enemy that should target players with better defenses.


aggro

en-adj

aggro (comparative more aggro, superlative most aggro)

more aggro (comparative)
most aggro (superlative)
agro (alternative)

(gaming) Liable to attack without being attacked first (said of monsters).


aggro

en-verb

aggro (third-person singular simple present aggros or aggroes, present participle aggroing, simple past and past participle aggroed)

aggros (present singular third-person)
aggroes (present singular third-person)
aggroing (participle present)
aggroed (participle past)
aggroed (past)
agro (alternative)

They'll aggro on you if you get too close.

(gaming, intransitive) To become aggressive towards the player's character.

I aggroed the dragon by stealing from its hoard, and it killed me.

(gaming, transitive) To cause (a non-player character) to become aggressive towards the player's character.

irritar

to make a non-player character hostile towards one


@ 5 個

@ 1時間で寝る

(slang, gaming) Alternative form of あと (ato, “remaining”)


chit

From chitty, from Hindi चिट्ठी (ciṭṭhī, “letter, note, written message”). Doublet of cure.

bor

1.4.3 Also on the board, but turned face down at the beginning of the game, are chits representing treasure sites and sounds and warnings of monsters that may arrive on the map. When characters end a turn in the hex, these chits are revealed. As characters move around the board, more and more of these chits will be revealed, letting the players know where monsters and treasures are to be found.

2005, Richard Hamblen, Teresa Michelsen, Stephen McKnight, The unofficial, updated Third Edition of the Magic Realm Rules:

(gaming) A smaller cardboard counter generally used not to directly represent something but for another, more transient, purpose such as tracking or randomization.


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”)


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.


grief

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)
greefe (alternative obsolete)
griefe (alternative obsolete)

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, often through acts of destruction or vandalism.


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


raid

raids (plural)
rade (alternative Scotland)

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

massively multiplayer online game
massively multiplayer online game

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


stack

en-verb

stack (third-person singular simple present stacks, present participle stacking, simple past and past participle stacked)

stacks (present singular third-person)
stacking (participle present)
stacked (participle past)
stacked (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-stack.wav

From Middle English stack, stacke, stakke, stak, from Old Norse stakkr (“a barn; haystack; heap; pile”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz (“a barn; rick; haystack”).
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.

натрупвам

To place objects or material in the form of a stack

A magical widget will double your mojo. And yes, they do stack: if you manage to get two magical widgets, your mojo will be quadrupled. With three, it will be octupled, and so forth.


bestiary

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-bestiary.wav

Borrowed from Medieval Latin bēstiārium, from Latin bēstia (“beast, animal”). By surface analysis, beast + -ary.

(gaming) A list or guidebook of the monsters to be found in a roleplaying game.


twink

I certainly don't consider myself a twink; however it seems that anyone who doesn't agree with another's point of view is automatically labelled as such.

1997, Flower of the Night, “Looking for a mud”, in rec.games.mud.diku (Usenet):

You will not find any stock. You will not find any easy mobs. You will not find any +100 dam 'big swords of I win'. You will not find twink mudders. You will not hear about how Jim the Kewl dOOd scored last night at his sister's birthday party. You will not find bots.

1997, Gov't Cheeze, “[AD/REQUEST] Builders and Players (twinks need not apply)”, in rec.games.mud.admin (Usenet):

Bind-on-account was an innovation that allowed players to transfer goods to their own twinks, but not to those of other players.

2015, Richard A. Bartle, MMOs from the Inside Out, page 154:

Characters who were obvious twinks, possessing equipment well beyond their means, were subject to public criticism.

2016, Timothy Rowlands, Video Game Worlds: Working at Play in the Culture of EverQuest, page 71:

(gaming, derogatory) A player (or character created by a player) in a multi-user dungeon or other roleplaying game who engages in obnoxious or abusive behaviour, especially one who uses a higher-level character to give advanced equipment to one of their own lower-level characters.


twink

en-verb

twink (third-person singular simple present twinks, present participle twinking, simple past and past participle twinked)

twinks (present singular third-person)
twinking (participle present)
twinked (participle past)
twinked (past)

Twinking happens in virtual worlds with PD, but not to the same extent.

2004, Richard A. Bartle, Designing Virtual Worlds, page 429:

However, the taboo surrounding twinking had all but disappeared by the time I started playing again in 2004.

2016, Timothy Rowlands, Video Game Worlds: Working at Play in the Culture of EverQuest:

He used real money to buy large amounts of in-game gold then 'twinked' his new character with the best gear, upgrading as his level rapidly increased.

2018, Adam Drake, Shadow For Hire Books 1-4:

That the twinked little brat doesn't want to mention that the only reason she won a single game was that daddy cut her a fat check.

2020, Alex Maven, ForeverQuest: Online Battle Arena:

(intransitive, gaming, derogatory) To engage in obnoxious or abusive behaviour in a multi-user dungeon or other roleplaying game, for example by griefing or by equipping a low-level character with advanced equipment from another player.


racial

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-racial.wav

(gaming) A skill possessed by all characters of a certain race.


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.


squishy

en-adj

squishy (comparative squishier or more squishy, superlative squishiest or most squishy)

squishier (comparative)
more squishy (comparative)
squishiest (superlative)
most squishy (superlative)
squishie (alternative noun)

濕軟 /湿软

(of an object or substance) yielding easily to pressure; very soft; especially, soft and wet, as mud

Yeah, I’m, like, freaking tissue paper here. Come get the mage, everyone. Pick on the poor squishy mage!

2006, Marianne Mancusi, Stake That!, page 28:

Telling your healers how well they kept people alive when a battle was difficult is important; or, what a great job your thief did in disarming the traps to get to the raid; clapping your warriors on their backs for maintaining aggro (i.e., keeping the monster targeting them rather than “squishy” mages) or applauding the sorcerers who unloaded incredible amounts of damage.

2008, Jeon Rezvani, Guild Leadership: Lessons from the Virtual World, page 111:

What this tells us is that, against PCs equipped to confront a drow shadowblade, a single round's Multiattack is unlikely to deliver a one-hit kill – not unless the target is a squishy wizard or sorcerer.

2022, Keith Ammann, MOAR!: Monsters Know What They're Doing, page 89:

(gaming) Vulnerable to physical damage; having low hit points or defense.


mise

en-verb

mise (third-person singular simple present mises, present participle mising, simple past and past participle mised)

mises (present singular third-person)
mising (participle present)
mised (participle past)
mised (past)

(gaming, slang) To make a risky move with no regard for the consequences when the alternative is certain defeat.


fist

fist (third-person singular simple present fists, present participle fisting, simple past and past participle fisted)

fists (present singular third-person)
fisting (participle present)
fisted (participle past)
fisted (past)
foost (alternative)

From Middle English fist, from Old English fȳst (“fist”), from Proto-West Germanic *fūsti, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fääste (“fist”), West Frisian fûst (“fist”), Dutch vuist (“fist”), German Low German Fuust (“fist”), German Faust (“fist”). More at five.

(transitive, gaming) To stomp, to utterly defeat


simoleon

simoleons (plural)
simolean (alternative)
Simoleon (alternative)

Most likely a late-19th-century blend of simon (“dollar”), from simon (“sixpence coin”) (17th-century British slang, perhaps related to simony?), and Napoleon (“French gold coin worth 20 francs, bearing the image of Napoleon III”). Perhaps from New Orleans.
The gaming sense may have been chosen for its similarity to Sim.

The game franchise demands that its participants to simulate the "rat race," earning Simoleons, remodeling their homes, and buying properties.

2016 February 5, Emma Hazen, “Artist Profile: Jacky Connolly”, in Rhizome:

A fake, theoretical, or unofficial unit of currency.

(gaming; sometimes uncountable or capitalized) In-game currency of The Sims computer game series, or its symbol.


LP

en-noun

LP (countable and uncountable, plural LPs)

(online gaming, Internet) Initialism of let's play.


idle

From Middle English idel, ydel, from Old English īdel (“idleness”), from the adjective (see above).


dado

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dado, itself from a form *datu of uncertain origin; possibly from Classical Arabic أَعْدَاد (ʔaʕdād, “numbers”), or from Latin datum. Compare Spanish dado, Catalan dau, Italian dado, French dé.


dado

Uncertain. Perhaps from a Vulgar Latin *dadu, itself either from Latin datum (“thrown, given”), or from Arabic أَعْدَاد (ʔaʕdād, “numbers”). Compare Spanish and Portuguese dado, Catalan dau, French dé.

giocare a dadi


dado

→ Malay: dadu

Indonesian: dadu

→ Swahili: dadu

From Old Galician-Portuguese dado, itself from a Vulgar Latin *dadu, of uncertain origin; possibly from Classical Arabic أَعْدَاد (ʔaʕdād, “numbers”), or from Latin datum. Compare Spanish dado, Catalan dau, Italian dado, French dé.

O dado mais comum tem seis lados.


dado

From a Vulgar Latin *dadu, of uncertain origin; perhaps from Arabic أَعْدَاد (ʔaʕdād, “numbers”), or alternatively from Latin dātum. Compare Portuguese dado, Catalan dau, Italian dado. Cf. also French dé.


mid

Inherited from Middle English mid, midde, from Old English midd (“mid, middle, midway”), from Proto-West Germanic *midi, from Proto-Germanic *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”).
Cognate with Dutch midden (“in the middle”), German Mitte (“center, middle, mean”), Icelandic miður (“middle”, adjective), Latin medius (“middle”, noun and adjective). See also middle. The slang sense may be influenced by terms such as middling and midwit.

cog

We need to retake mid.

(location, online gaming, slang) The middle of the battlefield.


mid

Everyone head mid.

(location, online gaming, slang) To or into the middle of the battlefield.


alt

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

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

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

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

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


console

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


roly-poly

en-noun

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

roly-polys (plural)
roly-polies (plural)
rolly polly (alternative)
rolly-poly (alternative)
rolly-pooly (alternative)

/ˌɹəʊlɪˈpəʊli/

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

suffix

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

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

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

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


gank

en-verb

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

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

Our group totally ganked this guy.

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


bg

(online gaming slang) Initialism of bad game.


MMORPG

massively multiplayer online role-playing game#English

(online gaming) Initialism of massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

MMORPG

abbreviation of video game type — see also massively multiplayer online role-playing game


hax

The third critical hit in a row! You only win because of hax!

(gaming) Crucial luck-based events in battles.


Level

de-noun

Level m or n (strong, genitive Levels, plural Levels or Level)

Levels (genitive)
Levels (plural)
Level (plural)
Level (definite nominative singular)
Levels (definite nominative plural)
Level (definite nominative plural)
Levels (genitive singular)
Levels (definite genitive plural)
Level (definite genitive plural)
Level (dative singular)
Levels (dative definite plural)
Leveln (dative definite plural)
Level (accusative definite singular)
Levels (accusative definite plural)
Level (accusative definite plural)

Unadapted borrowing from English level. Doublet of Libelle and Niveau.

Sicher ist: Die Letzte Generation hat an diesem Montag ihr nächstes Level erreicht.

2023 April 24, Erik Peter, “Letzte Generation in Berlin: Kurz mal still gestanden”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN:

What is certain is that on Monday The Last Generation has reached its next level.

(gaming or figurative) level (one of several discrete segments of a game)


gg

/d͡ʒiːd͡ʒiː/

(online gaming slang) Initialism of good game.

Nature's Prophet going to get the last hit in as well. It's the entire team down for EHOME. This is GG.

2014 March 19, Free to Play (Film), spoken by Announcer:

(online gaming slang, by extension) loss, defeat, game over


macromanagement

(gaming) The management of long-term or large-scale aspects of a strategy game.


PO

REMISE IMMÉDIATE Vous récupérez 6% des PO dépensées quand vous achetez des objets légendaries.

2024 October 20, “What does PO mean?”, in Reddit:

Cash Back Upon purchasing a Legendary item, you are automatically refunded 6% of its total gold cost.


PV

(gaming) Abbreviation of point de vie (“health”).


int

en-verb

int (third-person singular simple present ints, present participle inting, simple past and past participle inted)

ints (present singular third-person)
inting (participle present)
inted (participle past)
inted (past)

→ German: inten

→ Spanish: intear

Apparently a back-formation from inting, which is a shortening of intentional / intentionally feeding.

2017 The difficulty in banning the ‘most toxic League of Legends player in North America’
Tyler’s signature crime was his habit of intentionally feeding or “inting” in ranked matches.

2018 Riot Games Comments on Intentional Feeding Sion Strategy
Inting, or intentional feeding, is one of the greatest sins in League of Legends. This strategy, apparently discovered by a player named MidLanerFromHell, uses Sion as a turret destroyer above all else, even sacrificing himself in the name of base destruction.

2019 Broxah reported Febiven for inting on stream

(intransitive, gaming) To die intentionally in a match by having oneself slain by enemy characters or structures so as to give resources to the opposing team

Sorry guys, I inted. I thought I could get the kill and then get out.

(intransitive, gaming) To make a bad play, even if it's unintentional.

Why are you inting my lane?

I know this guy. He recently inted my diamond promos (promotional games to the diamond tier).

(transitive, gaming) To ruin a match or a specific part of a match by intentionally or unintentionally dying or making bad plays

Whenever I meet him again, I will gladly int him.

(transitive, gaming) To make someone lose a match by (mostly) intentionally or unintentionally dying


equip

equip (third-person singular simple present equips, present participle equipping, simple past equipped, past participle equipped or (archaic) equipt)

equips (present singular third-person)
equipping (participle present)
equipped (past)
equipped (participle past)
equipt (archaic participle past)

From French équiper (“to supply, fit out”), originally said of a ship, Old French esquiper (“to embark”); of Germanic origin, most probably from Old Norse skipa (“to man (a ship)”), from Proto-Germanic *skipōną (“to ship, sail, embark”).
Compare with Middle High German schipfen, German schiffern, Icelandic skipa, Old English scipian. Doublet of ship.

der

Take it down from a distance with a magic spell, or equip your sword and attack it at close range.

2002, Prima Temp Authors, PlayStation 2: Hot Strategies for Cool Games, page 69:

(transitive, gaming) To equip oneself with (an item); to bring (equipment) into active use.


equip

(gaming, slang) Equipment (carried by a game character).


GDR

(gaming) Initialism of gioco di ruolo (“role-playing game”).


shard

From Middle English shard, scherd, scheard, schord, from Old English sċeard (“a broken piece; shard”), from Proto-West Germanic *skard, from Proto-Germanic *skardą (“notch; nick”), from *skardaz (“damaged; nicked; scarred”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Akin to Scots schaird (“shard”), French écharde (“splinter”), Dutch schaarde (“tear; notch; fragment”), German Scharte (“notch”), Old Norse skarð (“notch, hack”) ( > Danish skår).
The database sense is perhaps derived from the online gaming sense or from SHARD (System for Highly Available Replicated Data), name of a 1980s database product.

cog

1997, Ultima Online. The term "shard" is related to the backstory of the game, in which the Gem of Immortality is shattered by the Stranger, the protagonist of Ultima I.
"The planet was still bound to the jewel's magic, even as it lay shattered upon the floor of Mondain's castle. For, within each shattered remnant of the jewel, dwelled a perfect likeness of Sosaria. Thus is the world in which you are born, live, and die. Brittania, that was once Sosaria, now exists as a thousand worlds, each with its own peoples, history and destiny. This Brittania is but one of many in the multiverse that is... ...ULTIMA ONLINE." - Intro cinematic to the game, written by Michael Morlan https://web.archive.org/web/20080706122926/http://michael-morlan.net/pages/production/prod_uo.htm

(online gaming) An instance of an MMORPG that is one of several independent and structurally identical virtual worlds, none of which has so many players as to exhaust a system's resources.


shard

en-verb

shard (third-person singular simple present shards, present participle sharding, simple past and past participle sharded)

shards (present singular third-person)
sharding (participle present)
sharded (participle past)
sharded (past)
sherd (alternative)

(online gaming, transitive) To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.


(online gaming) Initialism of pay-to-play.


parti

partik (plural)
parti (nominative singular)
partik (nominative plural)
partit (accusative singular)
partikat (accusative plural)
partinak (dative singular)
partiknak (dative plural)
partival (instrumental singular)
partikkal (instrumental plural)
partiért (causal-final singular)
partikért (causal-final plural)
partivá (singular translative)
partikká (plural translative)
partiig (singular terminative)
partikig (plural terminative)
partiként (essive-formal singular)
partikként (essive-formal plural)
partiban (inessive singular)
partikban (inessive plural)
partin (singular superessive)
partikon (plural superessive)
partinál (adessive singular)
partiknál (adessive plural)
partiba (illative singular)
partikba (illative plural)
partira (singular sublative)
partikra (plural sublative)
partihoz (allative singular)
partikhoz (allative plural)
partiból (elative singular)
partikból (elative plural)
partiról (delative singular)
partikról (delative plural)
partitól (ablative singular)
partiktól (ablative plural)
partié (singular)
partiké (plural)
partiéi (singular)
partikéi (plural)
partim (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
partijaim (or partiim) (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
partid (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
partijaid (or partiid) (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
partija (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
partijai (or partii) (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
partink (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
partijaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
or partiink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
partitok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
partijaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
or partiitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
partijuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
partijaik (or partiik) (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

From German Partie, from French partie (“part”), from partir (“to divide”), from Latin partire (“to separate”), from pars (“part”). The "social gathering" meaning is from English party.


trigger

Originally tricker, from Dutch trekker (“pull”, noun, as in drawer-pull, bell-pull), from Dutch trekken (“to drag, draw, pull”).

bor

(online gaming) A text string that, when received by a player, will cause the player to execute a certain command.

trigger

online gaming: text string that causes the player to execute a certain command


inv

(gaming) Abbreviation of inventory (“items carried by a player”).


ff

en-verb

ff (third-person singular simple present ffs, present participle ffing, simple past and past participle ffed)

ffs (present singular third-person)
ffing (participle present)
ffed (participle past)
ffed (past)

we can't win, ff this shit


soundtrack

soundtrack (nominative singular)
soundtracki (nominative plural)
soundtracku (genitive singular)
soundtracków (genitive plural)
soundtrackowi (dative singular)
soundtrackom (dative plural)
soundtrack (accusative singular)
soundtracki (accusative plural)
soundtrackiem (instrumental singular)
soundtrackami (instrumental plural)
soundtracku (locative singular)
soundtrackach (locative plural)
soundtracku (singular vocative)
soundtracki (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English soundtrack.

ubor

(film, gaming, music, television, theater) soundtrack (narrow strip running down a movie film that carries the recorded sound in synchronization with the pictures)

(film, gaming, music, television, theater) soundtrack (the sound (especially the music) component of a movie)

(film, gaming, music, television, theater) soundtrack (recording of such music for sale)


lamer

Phil and his counterparts in Asia and the US are deployed to infiltrate pirate groups; to study IRC; to get under the skin of the lamers, the dabblers, and the professionals; to chat, seduce, charm, and interact with the denizens of this bizarre over-underworld.

1997 April 1, David McCandless, “Warez Wars”, in Wired, →ISSN:

Other accounts mention that the lamers are constantly asking for advice on coding routines.

2009, John Impagliazzo, Timo Järvi, Petri Paju, editors, History of Nordic Computing 2 […] , Springer, →ISBN, page 298:

(slang, derogatory, demoscene, gaming, warez, dated) A person lacking in maturity, social skills, technical competence or intelligence.

peelo

a person lacking in maturity, social skills, technical competence or intelligence


pwn

en-verb

pwn (third-person singular simple present pwns, present participle pwning, simple past and past participle pwned or pwnd or pwnt)

pwns (present singular third-person)
pwning (participle present)
pwned (participle past)
pwned (past)
pwnd (participle past)
pwnd (past)
pwnt (participle past)
pwnt (past)

From own, possibly born out of a typographical error (the adjacency of o and p on qwerty keyboards).

I pwned them in game!

2nd guard: "Yeah, shiiit! I PWNED YO @zz!"

1999 August 5, Quaestor, “Re: [SP] So..the first victim of the Evil/Hero System”, in rec.games.computer.ultima.online (Usenet), retrieved 2016-09-23, message-ID <37AA8154.D77E6EB8@Skara.Brae>:

Otherwise I use fury as my normal attack. Fury completely pwns!

2001, Edward Glamkowski, alt.games.diablo2 (Usenet):

When you get to the Temple of Marr, look very closely at the vases at zone-in and see if you can find the picture where Mith Marr "pwns" someone.

2003, James Grahame, alt.games.everquest (Usenet):

My Trident pwns the Cirrus Logics!

2004, Bronney Hui, alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia (Usenet):

NOOBZ STILL R NOT PWNED. CONTINUE PWNERSHIP UNTIL ALL NOOBZ R PWNED.

2005, AlphaDream, Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, Nintendo:

(Internet slang, online gaming, originally leet, ambitransitive) To own, to defeat or dominate (someone or something, especially a game or someone playing a game).


gamey

en-adj

gamey (comparative more gamey or gamier, superlative most gamey or gamiest)

more gamey (comparative)
gamier (comparative)
most gamey (superlative)
gamiest (superlative)
gamy (alternative)

(gaming) Involving in-game actions or behaviour that break immersion or contradict common sense in favour of exploiting game mechanics.


recovery

en-noun

recovery (countable and uncountable, plural recoveries)

recoveries (plural)
recovre (alternative)

From Middle English recoveree, from Old French recovree, from recovrer (“recover”).

(gaming) The ability to recover or regain health.


combo

→ Portuguese: combo

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

Obviously, this is something not seen very often, with super flashy, combo-driven fighters dominating store shelves everywhere.

2002, Andy Slaven, Video Game Bible, 1985-2002:

(gaming) Effective combination of gameplay elements.

(video games) An action composed of a sequence of simpler actions, especially a composite attacking move in a fighting game.

Tm have several OP combos, i think ecology expert with kelp algea^([sic]) is stronger than fish combo IMO.

2019, RyuSora, “OP Combo”, in Board Game Geek:

Two or more gameplay elements (e.g. characters, items) which are powerful when used together.

Personally I'd like to see an environment where all the major archetypes, control, beatdown, and combo are viable.

1999, Steven Merritt, “[ISSUE] An alternative to Banning, increase minimum deck size”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

Whenever I play (I play D&D alot^([sic]) too) I always play combo.

1999, michele oasheim, “The Funnest Combo Decks”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

(especially collectible card games) A strategy aiming to win by playing a specific combination of cards (or similar), often in a single turn.


stomp

en-verb

stomp (third-person singular simple present stomps, present participle stomping, simple past and past participle stomped)

stomps (present singular third-person)
stomping (participle present)
stomped (participle past)
stomped (past)

1803, variant of stamp. Compare German stampfen (“to stomp”). More at stamp.

(transitive, gaming) To completely defeat or overwhelm an enemy, to win by a large lead over someone


succès

→ Danish: succes

→ Dutch: succes

→ Ladino: sukseso

→ Romanian: succes

→ Turkish: sükse


cocked

(gaming) Of a die: having landed in a tilted position, rather than flat.