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This list is of slang terms used in the context of online gaming. General internet slang is also used. See:

List of Internet slang

List of computer-related jargon

List of Internet slang specific to thread-based communication

    List of online-gaming slang
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10-4
"OK" or "Acknowledged" or "Roger that" (from CB radio jargon)

1337
Elite player

20
"Location" (from CB radio jargon)

411
A situation report

A

AC
Armor Class (in role-playing games)•

Ack
"Acknowledged"

AFC
"Away From console"

AFK
"Away From keyboard" or "a free kill"

Aggro
To provoke, purposefully or by accident, any amount of enemies•

AoE
"Area of Effect"• or "Age of Empires"

AP: "Attack Power"

AT
"Arranged Team" (used in RTS-games)

B

Barr
a boss battle in an MMORPG that was easier than expected

Bio or Bio Break
Term often used in DDO to inform other players that the poster is gone to use the washroom.

Bish
A term derived from a comical myspace comment. Slang for "bitch."

Boot
to eject a player from a server (otherwise known as kick)

BF2
Battlefield 2

BFG
"Big Fucking Gun" or "Bio-Force Gun" (Creator joke from DOOM series)

BRT
"Be Right There"

BM
"Bad Manner" (often seen in StarCraft)

Buff
Either the act of using magic / techniques / skills to temporarily increase the abilities of a character, or a character type who can use such.

BYOB
"Bring Your Own Box", box referring to a computer. Also "Bring You Own Beer" or "Bring Your Own Bombs".

BYOC
"Bring Your Own Computer" (the norm for huge computer gaming events)

C

Camping
Remaining in one location to avoid detection. Usually for the purpose of ambushing or sniping.

Char
Character

Check Up
While waiting in the Lobby for a game to start, to "check up" is to indicate that you are ready to start playing.

CK
"Character Kill" ~ Term used in PSO for deliberately corrupting another player's character file, thereby rendering it inoperable.

CoD
"Call of Duty"

CoX
"City of Heroes/Villains" (referring to the combined state of the two online games, and sometimes also to possible additions to the "City of...." series)

CPL
"Cyberathlete Professional League"

CT
"Counter-Terrorist" (in Counter-Strike)

CTF
"Capture the Flag"

CS
"Counter-Strike"

CSCZ: ""

CSS
""

D

DAOC
"Dark Age of Camelot"

D&D
"Dungeons & Dragons"

DD
"Don't Die" (used in online RTS games) , "Direct Damage" or "Double Damage"

DDO: "Dungeons and Dragons Online"

DM
"DeathMatch" or "Dungeon Master"

Ding
to Level up

DOT
"Damage Over Time"•

DoD
"Day of Defeat"

DoDs
"Day of Defeat: Source"

DPS
"Damage per Second."

Dupe
"To duplicate items, usually in MMOs person who does that is called a Duper."

E

ESL
Electronic Sports League

ESWC
Electorinic Sports World Cup

F

FF
"Friendly Fire", also "Final Fantasy"

FFA
"Free-For-All" (a game mode in which there are no teams)

FFS
"For Fuck's Sake"

FPS
"First Person Shooter" or "Frames Per Second"

Frag
to kill (not only from fragmentation grenade; see frag)

FSOD
"Frozen Screen of Death" ~ Where the entire game freezes up indefinitely. Experienced often in the past on Phantasy Star Online as a result of inappropriate or malicious code use, often causing corruption of character data.

G

G2G: "Got To Go" ("Got 2 Go")

GB
used as short form for "gangbang", which is approximately the same as "gank" in DotA

Gank
to defeat by excessive force (when attacking an enemy in a game)•

GBA
"Game Boy Advance"

GCN
"Nintendo Gamecube"

GF
"Good Fight"

GG
"Good Game", "Good Group", also "Good Going", sometimes used sarcastically

GGG
"Go, Go, Go!"

GH
"Good Half" (used in online round-based games such as Counter-Strike)

GJ
"Good Job"

GL
"Good Luck"

GLF
"Group Looking For", used when a team is forming for a mission and looking for more, typically followed with a list of requested character types/builds

GM
"Game Master" or "Good Match"

Griefer
one who employs tactics such as team-killing, vehicle stealing, and spawn-raping •

GTFO
(get the fuck out)

GW
"Good Work" (also used sarcastically), or an abbreviation of the game Guild Wars

GWF
"Guild Wars
Factions"

H

Hax
cheating (used by players who have suffered at the hands of a cheater, or "hax0r")

Haxor
hacker (someone using mods in game)

Hasu
"noob" (from the Korean equivalent)

HIO
"Hole In One", used in online golf games, most notably Albatross 18

HK
"Honor Kill", from World of Warcraft

HoT
"Heal Over Time"

HPB
"High Ping Bastard" (someone with high latency)

HS: "Head Shot"

I

IDDQD
Famous Doom God-mode cheat.

IRL
"In Real Life"

ISO
"In Search Of" (used while trading items in online games)

IYOKTPOTDS
"If you only knew the power of the dark side." Used by many dark side users who have just beaten their cowardly opponents in any type of STAR WARS game

IGL: "I Got Lag" used in online games on some consoles

J

JKLOL
Just Kidding Laugh(ing) Out Loud

K

Kit
(failure in the eyes of gamers everywhere)

KOS
"Kill On Sight" (designates enemies in online games whom, based on their prior actions, one should kill)

KS
"Kill Steal" (the act of one player defeating an enemy that another player was attacking or previously weakened)

L

Lamer
a know-nothing or a person using so-called lame strategies

Leech/Leach: one who gains experience points by being on your party without fihting (typically in Diablo II)

Legit
Legitimate. I.E. without hacks nor unfair play of any kind. Typically used in PSO since this isn't a problem with patchable PC games.

LFG
"Looking For Group", usually followed by your character type/build•

LFP
"Looking for Party". Similar term to LFG, often used in Guild Wars.

LFMo
"Looking for Monk", because "monks" are the healers in Guild Wars and very sought after. The last two letters can be substituted for the abbreviated letters of any of the other classes where necessary.

LMAO
"Laugh My Ass Off", a friendly way of lauging more severely than "LOL".

Lobby
A virtual waiting room. Gamers wait here for the next game to start in a specific 'room'. If you enter the lobby while a game is already in progress, you can usually watch its progress while waiting for it to end. (Also, in RuneScape, means 'lobster'.)

LOL
"Laugh(ing) Out Loud" (A friendly, non-sarcastic way of laughing)•

Loot
To loot somebody is to steal their belongings (RPGs and MMORPGs) normally without having killed the person yourself.

LTB
"Looking To Buy", used often in mmorpgs to denote a player who is looking to buy a specific item.

LVL
abbreviation of "level". Usually used when asking for someone else's statistics (ex: "What lvl are you?") or when exclaiming you have gained an experience level.

L2P
"Learn to Play"

Lrn2Play
"Learn to Play"

LTS
"Looking To Sell", a MMORPG term used to broadcast that a player is looking to sell an item usually in high demand by other players.

M

Meat Shield
An up-front fighter, usually attacked first by enemies.

Mob
"Mobile", something that can move (mostly used in MMORPGs) or a foe in-game ("watch out for the mobs").•

MM
"Minion Master", a Guild Wars term for necromancers who specialise in raising armies of undead minions (and tend to be overpowered as a result)

Mob
Either a large group of individually weak characters / npcs / foes (noun) or to defeat the opposition by sheer weight of numbers (verb). "Swarm" is also used similarly.

Mod
"Modification"

MUD
"Multi-User Dungeon"

MUSH
"Multi-User Shared Habitat"

N

Nade
A death by grenade.

Nerfed: used in MUDs to express a certain class being changed and downgraded.•

Newb
some one new to a game. (not to be confused with Noob or NOOb)

NFS
"Not For Sale" (used in MMORPGs when someone wants to buy another player's equipment)OR Need For Speed

Ninja: A player who takes/steals anything without asking the other players

NOL
To replace another player's Phantasy Star Online character model with that of an NPC (so named because the initial NPC characters were turned into was called NOL).

Noob or N00b: a general derogatory term; jerk, idiot, ass, etc. (not to be confused with newbie or newb)

NORE
"No Rematch" (usually used by the victor)

NPC
"Non-Player Character", a in-game person not controlled by a player (mostly in RPGs and MMORPGs)•

NP
"No Problem" (as response to an apology)

NRG
Shorthand for "Energy" used in Guild Wars, used to designate the lack thereof. Typically only used if there is someone on the team who has spells to boost energy regeneration

NS
"Nice Shot" (used in FPSes)

NT
"Nice Try"

Nuker
A character primarily capable of doing particularly high damage per unit time, typically with spellcasting or equivalent special abilities.

O

OHK
"One-Hit Kill" (used in FPSes)

OHKO
"One-Hit Knock-Out" (used in fighting games)

OMFG
"Oh My Fucking God"

OMFL: "Oh My Fucking Lag!"

OMFGLMFAO
"Oh my fucking god, Laughing my fucking ass off"

OMG: "Oh My God/Gosh/Goodness/Golly"

OML
"Oh, My Lag!"

OMW
"On My Way"

OOB
"Out Of Bounds"

OOC
"Out-Of-Character", used in MMORPG or MUD settings when a player isn't acting out his/her part) or "Out Of Curiosity"

OOA
"Out of ammo" Any form of a shoot 'em up game where the player has used all of his/her ammunition

OOM
"Out Of Mana" (used in games with a mana bar)•

OOW
"On Our Way" (similar to OMW)

OTW
"On The Way"

Own
to defeat someone in a game, to take control of someone's system, or to simply "be awesome"

P

Pipe
To teleport back to town / safe area (from "Telepipe" item in PSO)

PK/PKer
"Player Killer" (or "to Player Kill")•

PMSL
"Pissing Myself Laughing"

PSO
"Phantasy Star Online"

PTKFGS
"Punch The Keys For God's Sake!"

Pub
"Public", can refer to open servers or to players not belonging to any clan

PUG
"Pick-Up Group", a group of players gathered on the fly without knowing each other

PvE
"Player Versus Environment"•

PvM
"Player Versus Monster"

PvP
"Player versus Player"•

Pwn: Deliberately misspelled variation of the word “own” used in video games (Mainly FPS and RTS).

R

Rax
Barracks

Remort
To start again at the lowest level, with point modifiers raised, depending on character classes (Mainly RPG's)

Res
Resurrect (either referring to a spell / ability that can be cast to bring back dead characters in game, or referring to an automated process in some MMORPGs)

RGR
"Roger"

RL
"Real Life"

ROFL: "roling on the floor laughing"

RS
An abbreviation for the popular MMORPG game RuneScape

RPG
Role Playing Game

RTS
"Real-Time Strategy" (As opposed to turn-based strategy)

RTSD
"Rush That Shit Down" (That is, take advantage of a good thing while it lasts; originally used to describe a play style wherein one overwhelms his opponent with many quick, up-close attacks. See Rush.)

RTL
"Report The Loss" (used lightheartedly when a teammate dies)

RT
"Real Time" or "Random Team"

Rush
To quickly go attack the opponent just a few minutes after the beginning.

Rusher
A player who rushes to the attack at the start of a game. Usually refers to an opposition player.

S

Sheefag
Someone who constantly kills the opposing players with a banshee (Halo). The term sheefag is directed as an insult.

Smacktard
Someone on an online game who spends all his time talking himself up.

SNAFU
"Situation Normal All Fucked Up" (from military slang, frequently used outside the Internet as well)

Sniperwhore
Somebody who uses a sniper rifle alot and gains alot of kills from using it by camping are sometimes referred to as sniperwhores or sniperbitch.

SP
"Single Player", could also mean "Skill Point" as in Guild Wars

Spawn Camp
to wait at a spawn point for a weapon or vehicle to spawn, also to camp at the enemy spawn point to spawn kill.

Spawn Kill
to kill an enemy within seconds of them spawning

Spawn Point
a player's starting (or, after being killed, re-starting) position

Spawn Rape
persistent spawn killing or destruction of unused vehicles and base defenses

STW
"Share The Wealth"

STFU
"shut the fuck up" also stoofoo

T

T
"Terrorist" (in Counter-Strike)

T4U2D
"Time For You To Die"

Tank
A character with particularly high defence, typically used to draw damage away from the rest of a group.

TDM
"Team Death Match"

Teabagging
In first-person shooters, the action of crouching down onto the face of a dead player that the killer killed.

TMR@IA
"The Monkeys Are At It Again" (used to blame the staff of online gaming communities for any in-game screw-ups)

TNL
"To Next Level" (preceded by experience needed to level up)

TOD: "Time Of Death" (used in calculating when a monster may spawn in an MMORPG)

TP
"Team Player" or "Take Point" (also "Town Portal" in several Blizzard games or "Telepipe" in PSO)

TK
"team kill" to kill a team mate

TKFT: "team killing fucktard"

TY4P
"Thank You For Playing"

TTYL
"Talk To You Later"

Twink
A lower-level player who has access to, or is using, items that are unattainable for newer players due to their price or rarity. (Used in MMORPGs)

V

VGG
"Very Good Game"

W

Wallhack
A form of hack which lets the player see through walls.

WoW
An abbreviation for the popular MMORPG game "World Of Warcraft"•

WP
"Well Played"

WTB
"Want To Buy"•

WTS
"Want To Sell"•

WTT
"Want To Trade"

WMAO: "Waiting My Ass Off" (used during very laggy games)

X

Y

YTMND- Your The Man Now Dog (a sign of appreciation. Also a very popular homegrown website)

Z

Zerg
to use overwhelming numbers to overcome an enemy (originated with StarCraft but now more commonly refers to many lower-leveled players overcoming a higher-leveled player)• or a term to refer to Koreans.

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