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. Browse the list below to brush up on your WoW slang.
| Slang Term | Meaning | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| WoW | World of Warcraft | 553 |
| Camper | A player who doesn't move | 553 |
| RL | Real life | 556 |
| pwned | Owned | 561 |
| crit | Critical Strike | 561 |
| Ganking | Launching a surprise attack | 571 |
| GB | Guild bank | 571 |
| mats | Materials | 571 |
| inv | Invite | 572 |
| WTS | Want to sell | 573 |
| LFG | Looking for group | 575 |
| Boomkin | Moonkin druid | 575 |
| Ding | Level up | 575 |
| 25m | Twenty-five man | 576 |
| rep | Reputation | 576 |
| cata | Cataclysm | 576 |
| Uber | Excellent | 576 |
| AP | Attack power | 579 |
| AH | Auction house | 580 |
| brez | Battle resurrection | 581 |
| MT | Mistype | 583 |
| Farmed | Repetitively killed or gathered | 584 |
| HM | Hard mode | 585 |
| MDPS | Melee damage per second | 585 |
| HPS | Heals per second | 585 |
| MC | Mind Control | 586 |
| jc | Jewelcrafter | 586 |
| LF1M | Looking for one more | 587 |
| WOTLK | Wrath of the Lich King | 589 |
| Wipe | Total death | 591 |
| Agi | Agility | 592 |
| int | Intellect | 592 |
| rez | Resurrection | 593 |
| spec | Specialization | 593 |
| WTB | Want to buy | 593 |
| ICC | Icecrown Citadel | 593 |
| bg | Battleground | 594 |
| str | Strength | 594 |
| DKP | Dragon kill points | 594 |
| DBM | Deadly Boss Mods | 594 |
| Ninja | Loot stealer | 595 |
| Dal | Dalaran | 595 |
| resto | Restoration | 595 |
| FP | Flight point | 595 |
| adds | Additional mobs | 595 |
| Pull | Enter combat | 595 |
| SP | Spell power | 595 |
| 20m | Twenty man | 595 |
| MoP | Mists of Pandaria | 595 |
| Kara | Karazhan | 595 |
| Raid | Raid group | 596 |
| def | Defense | 596 |
| de | Disenchant | 596 |
| BFA | Battle for Azeroth | 596 |
| RMP | Rogue, Mage, Priest | 596 |
| Naxx | Naxxramas | 596 |
| Nax | Naxxramas | 596 |
| Shat | Shattrath City | 596 |
| Trash | Dungeon enemy mob groups | 596 |
| prot | Protection | 596 |
| RDPS | Ranged damage per second | 596 |
| pat | Patrol | 597 |
| Arpen | Armor penetration | 597 |
| PTR | Public test realm | 597 |
| xmute | Transmute | 598 |
| Belf | Blood elf | 598 |
| idd | Indeed | 598 |
| Shatt | Shattrath City | 598 |
| Waggro | Wife aggro | 598 |
| GS | Gear score | 598 |
| bio | Bathroom | 598 |
| NB | Nightborne | 599 |
| Nelf | Night elf | 599 |
| Bot mafia | A legion of automated World of Warcraft characters | 599 |
| Burst | Combination of attacks in a short span of time | 599 |
| Velf | Void elf | 599 |
| BoT | Bastion of Twilight | 599 |
| RTK | Return to Karazhan | 599 |
| Toon | Alternate character | 599 |
| Mule | Alternate character for storage | 599 |
| hp5 | Health per five seconds | 600 |
| disc | Discipline | 600 |
| mut | Mutilate | 600 |
| 10m | Ten man | 600 |
| WG | Wintergrasp | 602 |
| KS | Kingslayer | 606 |
| LOM | Low on mana | 607 |
| BC | The Burning Crusade | 610 |
| AE | Area of effect | 610 |
| GTG | Good to go | 617 |