World of Warcraft Slang
With over 10 million active players, Blizzard's World of Warcraft (WoW) is the quintessential massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). The large World of Warcraft community has also created a large number of chat slang terms specific to the game. The list below should help you brush up on your WoW slang skills.
Slang Term | Meaning | Votes |
---|---|---|
Camper | A player who doesn't move | 556 |
WoW | World of Warcraft | 558 |
RL | Real life | 563 |
crit | Critical Strike | 563 |
pwned | Owned | 564 |
GB | Guild bank | 572 |
mats | Materials | 572 |
GM | Game master | 573 |
inv | Invite | 574 |
Ganking | Launching a surprise attack | 575 |
WTS | Want to sell | 575 |
Boomkin | Moonkin druid | 576 |
Ding | Level up | 577 |
rep | Reputation | 578 |
cata | Cataclysm | 578 |
LFG | Looking for group | 579 |
25m | Twenty-five man | 579 |
AP | Attack power | 580 |
Uber | The best | 582 |
oneshot | One shot completion | 583 |
brez | Battle resurrection | 585 |
MT | Mistype | 586 |
Farmed | Repetitively killed or gathered | 586 |
HPS | Heals per second | 586 |
AH | Auction house | 586 |
MDPS | Melee damage per second | 587 |
HM | Hard mode | 587 |
jc | Jewelcrafter | 587 |
pwnt | Owned | 588 |
MC | Mind Control | 589 |
WOTLK | Wrath of the Lich King | 591 |
LF1M | Looking for one more | 591 |
Wipe | Total death | 592 |
int | Intellect | 593 |
agi | Agility | 594 |
Pull | Enter combat | 594 |
spec | Specialization | 595 |
WTB | Want to buy | 595 |
str | Strength | 595 |
DKP | Dragon kill points | 595 |
rez | Resurrection | 595 |
Dal | Dalaran | 595 |
bio | Bathroom | 596 |
resto | Restoration | 596 |
kara | Karazhan | 596 |
MoP | Mists of Pandaria | 596 |
bg | Battleground | 596 |
icc | Icecrown Citadel | 596 |
DBM | Deadly Boss Mods | 596 |
FP | Flight point | 596 |
SP | Spell power | 597 |
20m | Twenty man | 597 |
RDPS | Ranged damage per second | 597 |
RMP | Rogue, Mage, Priest | 597 |
def | Defense | 597 |
xmute | Transmute | 597 |
PST | Please send tell | 597 |
Burst | Combination of attacks in a short span of time | 597 |
BFA | Battle for Azeroth | 597 |
prot | Protection | 597 |
adds | Additional mobs | 597 |
Trash | Dungeon enemy mob groups | 597 |
de | Disenchant | 597 |
shat | Shattrath City | 598 |
Ninja | Loot stealer | 598 |
HOT | Heal over time | 598 |
Raid | Raid group | 598 |
PTR | Public test realm | 598 |
naxx | Naxxaramas | 598 |
BoT | Bastion of Twilight | 599 |
waggro | Wife aggro | 599 |
arpen | Armor penetration | 599 |
pat | Patrol | 599 |
nax | Naxxaramas | 599 |
Mule | Alternate character for storage | 599 |
GS | Gear score | 599 |
hp5 | Health per five seconds | 599 |
Toon | Alternate character | 599 |
idd | Indeed | 600 |
Bot mafia | A legion of automated World of Warcraft characters | 600 |
mut | Mutilate | 600 |
shatt | Shattrath City | 600 |
10m | Ten man | 600 |
disc | Discipline | 600 |
belf | Blood Elf | 600 |
ks | Kingslayer | 602 |
wg | Wintergrasp | 602 |
LOM | Low on mana | 604 |
AE | Area of effect | 604 |
woot | Wonderful loot | 607 |
BC | The Burning Crusade | 607 |
GTG | Good to go | 610 |