See LARP in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2022 June 30, Anton Jäger (@AntonJaegermm), Twitter:",
"text": "When you think about it it really is crazy that the true sovereign of the world's imperial hegemon is basically an academic seminar in which a couple of legal scholars larp as historians all day.",
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"ref": "2022 November 6, Mike White, “Italian Dream”, in Mike White, director, The White Lotus, season 2, episode 2, via HBO:",
"text": "Harper Spiller (Aubrey Plaza): I don't know what my problem is. I just feel like— I feel like we're LARPing as rich people.\nEthan Spiller (Will Sharpe): We're not LARPing. How— how are we LARPing?",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To pretend to be something, or act as something."
],
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"pretend",
"pretend"
],
[
"act",
"act"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, by extension, often derogatory) To pretend to be something, or act as something."
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"derogatory",
"often",
"slang"
],
"topics": [
"games"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "lärp"
},
{
"ipa": "/lɑːp/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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},
{
"ipa": "/lɑɹp/",
"tags": [
"Canada",
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/lɐːp/",
"tags": [
"General-Australian",
"New-Zealand"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/laɹp/",
"tags": [
"Scotland"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/lɑː(ɾ)p/",
"tags": [
"India"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑː(ɹ)p"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to engage in live-action role-play",
"word": "larpata"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"lang_code": "is",
"sense": "to engage in live-action role-play",
"word": "kvikspuna"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"lang_code": "cmn",
"sense": "to pretend to be something or act as something",
"word": "cos"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to pretend to be something or act as something",
"word": "larpata"
}
],
"word": "LARP"
}
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