Glossary of player terms
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A number of unofficial terms find regular usage in the game. This glossary lists some of the more common ones players may see:
Glossary
AFK
- Away from keyboard.
- Aerial / Air shot / Airshot
- Hitting or killing an opponent in midair, usually followed from as a result of juggling. An aerial is a type of air shot.
- Airblast
- Term for the Pyro's compression blast ability.
- Backcapping / Back-capturing
- See back-capping.
- Bodyshot
- Refers to a shot a Sniper takes that deliberately aims for the body and ignoring the head.
- Bodyshotter
- A Sniper that repeatedly bodyshots to intentionally irritate the enemy.
- BRB
- Be right back.
- Buff
- May refer to
- A Medic overhealing a player (player has been "buffed");
- A weapon or item being improved or made stronger (see also nerf);
- A charged Buff Banner ready for deployment.
- Bunny hopping / bhopping
- See Exploits#List of Patched Exploits.
- Camping / Spawn Camping
- See article.
- Cap, Capping, Capped
- A control point capture, or the act of capturing a control point.
- Carpets / Sticky Carpets
- Large groups of sticky bombs that render certain areas impassable until dealt with.
- Bomb, the / Kart
- The Payload Cart
- Cheap
- Describing a tactic that is effective but requires little skill or effort. Often combined with 'spammer'.
- Circle strafe
- See article
- Crit(s)
- A Critical hit
- Crocket
- A Critical Rocket
- Crit ÜberCharge / Kritcharge / Kritz
- A Kritzkrieg ÜberCharge, or the act of being subjected to one.
- DC / D/C
- Disconnected.
- Demo
- May refer to
- A Demoman;
- A demo recording (see Help:Recording demos).
- Demoknight
- A Demoman that wields the Chargin' Targe and / or the Eyelander or Scotsman's Skullcutter.
- DH
- Acronym for the Direct Hit Rocket Launcher unlock for the Soldier.
- DM
- A player or class's "DeathMatch", meaning their combat prowess.
- DR
- Acronym for the Dead Ringer watch unlock for the Spy. Given its ability to feign a player's death, the acronym may also be used to indicate that a Spy that was just killed is still alive.
- Engie / Engy
- An Engineer.
- Facestab
- See also Backstab#Issues.
- A glitched backstab that registers as an instant kill despite appearing to hit the face.
- Failstab
- A stab aimed at the back that registers as just a normal jab.
- FAN / FaN
- Acronym for the Force-A-Nature unlock for the Scout.
- Farming
- The act of obtaining something rapidly that has intended to be obtained over time. Could refer to
- obtaining achievements in mass
- using idling or other methods to obtain hats or weapons via the item drop system
- Griefing
- See article.
- Huntspam / Lucksman / Arrow Spam
- Terms for the Huntsman, its 'lucky' qualities being attributed to its large hitboxes (it uses the same hitboxes as flame particles).
- Idler
- May refer to
- someone who is present on the server but is deliberately AFK for a long period of time to earn items via the item drop system;
- someone who uses external idling programs or uses idling servers for the same purpose.
- Instakill
- A kill which is inflicted instantly in a single hit, such as out-of-bounds fall damage, being hit by a train or being caught in the Payload explosion.
- Intel / Flag
- Shorthand name for the Intelligence flag in Capture the Flag maps.
- Juggling
- See article.
- KDR
- Kill death ratio. May be expressed as 27 Kills:7 Deaths or in a figure like 1.75 KDR. Medics will often present their KDR as a ratio of Assists to Deaths as kills are not normally their main source of points.
- Knock back
- See article.
- Lag
- The effect experienced by players who display erratic movement due to poor frame rates or connection.
- Mic
- A microphone, used for communication over voice chat.
- Micspam
- The act of repeatedly playing sounds, music, or generally abusing the voice chat feature. This may involve:
- using direct methods to stream .wav sound files
- deliberately creating noise by singing, blowing into the mic, or simply talking incessantly in order to disrupt others.
- Some servers promote micspam, and thus are called micspam servers. Players are encouraged to take turns playing music and use soundclips to entertain the server population.
- Mix
- See PUG.
- Nades
- Projectiles fired from the Demoman's Grenade Launcher.
- Needle boosting
- See article.
- Nest
- The collectivized area of an Engineer and his buildings.
- Newb / Newbie
- Someone who is new to the game.
- N00b / Noob / Nub
- A derogatory term used to imply a player is new to the game and therefore unskilled.
- Owned / Pwned
- A term used to inform a defeated player that they have been thoroughly beaten to an unseemly degree.
- Pipebomb
- An alternate name for the projectiles of the Demoman's Grenade Launcher.
- Poof / Poofing
- Term for the compression blast ability.
- Poofer
- Term for the normal Flamethrower which has the compression blast ability (see above).
- Poor and Irish
- A player who does not own any hats, coined by the Gentle Manne of Leisure in a hidden update page.
- Pub
- A public server
- Pubber
- A usually derogatory term for a player who frequents public servers.
- PUG
- Pick Up Game/Group, referring to a private game with team compositions determined by out-of-game communication (as opposed to a clan match or pub).
- Rage
- Term for the Charge a Soldier can build up when using the Buff Banner unlock
- Ragequit
- When a player leaves the server deliberately straight after getting killed multiple times or getting beaten by the other team (usually out of frustration).
- RTD / Roll The Dice
- An acronym used to trigger a random effect in servers running an RTD plug-in. The temporary effects can range from freezing you in one place, to granting you invisibility to other players.
- RTV / Rock The Vote
- An acronym generally used to trigger a map change in servers running an RTV plug-in. After a certain percent of the players in the server type "rtv" in chat, then a map vote will be initiated.
- Rush
- See article.
- Scrim
- A focused multiplayer match, often inter-clan.
- SG / Sentry / Gun / Turret
- An Engineer's Sentry Gun
- Sol / Solly
- A Soldier
- Spamming / Spam
- The act of deliberately aiming firepower at a particular area in attempt to get kills;
- An unwanted abundance of something such as chat messages, a specific class or a certain attack;
- See also micspam.
- Spawn
- The area in which you initially spawn and/or any area in which you respawn.
- Spawn Camping
- A situation in which the enemy team is camping your spawn entrance, killing you as soon as you get out.
- Spec
- Spectate
- Spy Cap
- Using a Spy to secretly capture a control point by slipping behind enemy lines and uncloaking on the point.
- Spy-checking
- The act of "checking" teammates and areas where teammates are for Spies.
- Spy Crab
- A Spy who, by crouching and looking up while having the Disguise Kit equipped, has attained the movements of a crab. Also refers to the taunt associated with the Disguise Kit.
- SR / SCO-RES
- Acronym for the Demoman's Scottish Resistance
- Stab'n'Sap
- The act as a Spy backstabbing an Engineer from behind, then immediately switching to the Electro Sapper and sapping his Sentry Gun before it turns around, then sapping his remaining gear before he respawns.
- Stairstab
- The act of jumping over another player's head from an elevated height as a Spy and backstabbing them.
- Steamroll
- To take capture points/Intelligence/move the cart extremely quickly at the beggining of a game, often resulting in a crushing defeat.
- Stickies
- Sticky bombs.
- Tele / TP
- An Engineer's Teleporter.
- Turtling
- See article
- Uber / Invuln
- An ÜberCharge
- Ubered
- Someone who is being ÜberCharged
- W+M1
- literally, FORWARD and MOUSE1
- Derogatory term for the act of suicidally attacking head on with the Flamethrower or Backburner as a Pyro. It is also used to imply the Pyro class requires no skill.
- W+M2
- literally, FORWARD and MOUSE2
- Derived from WM+1, used to refer to Pyros who only use the compression blast function to reflect projectiles, but avoid using the primary fire attack on the Flamethrower.
- Wallhugging
- Referring to a Sniper who hides behind walls and only comes out to make a shot.
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