"nerd pole" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: nerd poles [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} nerd pole (plural nerd poles)
  1. (video games, slang) Any tall, thin structure, usually only a few blocks wide, built in a voxel-based video game, especially one constructed by jumping and placing blocks beneath one's avatar. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Video games
    Sense id: en-nerd_pole-en-noun-e4AQ-aX5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 58 42 Topics: video-games

Verb

Forms: nerd poles [present, singular, third-person], nerd poling [participle, present], nerd poled [participle, past], nerd poled [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} nerd pole (third-person singular simple present nerd poles, present participle nerd poling, simple past and past participle nerd poled)
  1. (video games, slang, intransitive) To build a nerd pole, especially for the purpose of getting to higher ground. Tags: intransitive, slang Categories (topical): Video games
    Sense id: en-nerd_pole-en-verb-UEmD76s5 Topics: video-games

Inflected forms

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