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"ref": "2020 February 12, Mercedes Lackey, Cody Martin, Breaking Silence, Baen Books:",
"text": "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.",
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"To play a roleplaying game."
],
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"gaming",
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"play"
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"roleplaying game",
"roleplaying game"
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"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, gaming) To play a roleplaying game."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
],
"topics": [
"games",
"gaming"
]
},
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"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"en:Weapons"
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101,
106
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"ref": "1981 November 12, B.P., “U.S. Embassy”, in Soldier of Fortune, volume 6, number 11, page 53:",
"text": "However, one group of Americans at the Embassy doesn’t creep around quivering in anxiety about being RPGed or machinegunned.",
"type": "quote"
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65,
70
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"ref": "2006 September 12, Robert D. Kaplan, Imperial Grunts: […], Vintage Books, page 317:",
"text": "It was like the movie Black Hawk Down without the rioters. I was RPGed so often I gradually stopped ducking.",
"type": "quote"
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113,
118
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"ref": "2009, Ed Macy, Hellfire, HarperPress, page 343:",
"text": "The Taliban had buried a triple mine in the road a week ago and remotely detonated it under a Spartan. Then they RPGed the Scimitar trapped ahead of it.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To attack with a rocket-propelled grenade."
],
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"weaponry",
"weaponry"
],
[
"attack",
"attack"
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"rocket-propelled grenade",
"rocket-propelled grenade"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, weaponry) To attack with a rocket-propelled grenade."
],
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"transitive"
],
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"engineering",
"government",
"military",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"politics",
"tools",
"war",
"weaponry"
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}
],
"word": "RPG"
}
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