Leetspeak
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leetspeak
Jargon. A loose patois of English and Internet shorthand used by online game players for quick communication inside and outside of games.
Because of its heavy use of jargon and variable nature, avoid using leetspeak except in quoted material. For a general audience, parenthetical descriptions are recommended.
Some common leetspeak terms/phrases and their definitions:
- camper: A player that camps out in an advantageous position on a game map.
- FTW: For the win.
- gg: Good game.
- gibs: A general term for any in-game death. Short for giblets, i.e. what an exploded character generally looks like.
- leet/l33t/1337: Short for elite. Used as a term of admiration for an impressive in-game display.
- lol: Laughing out loud.
- newbie/noob/n00b: A relative newcomer to a game; often used derisively to describe an ignorant player. You don't know where to find heal spells? What a n00b!
- owned/pwned: A particularly savage defeat in a game. You totally got pwned by that rocket launcher.
- rofl: Rolling on the floor laughing.
