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 | 560 |
| WoW | World of Warcraft | 564 |
| RL | Real life | 566 |
| pwned | Owned | 567 |
| crit | Critical Strike | 569 |
| GM | Game master | 574 |
| GB | Guild bank | 575 |
| mats | Materials | 576 |
| inv | Invite | 576 |
| WTS | Want to sell | 577 |
| Boomkin | Moonkin druid | 577 |
| Ganking | Launching a surprise attack | 577 |
| rep | Reputation | 579 |
| Ding | Level up | 579 |
| cata | Cataclysm | 582 |
| AP | Attack power | 582 |
| LFG | Looking for group | 583 |
| 25m | Twenty-five man | 583 |
| oneshot | One shot completion | 584 |
| Uber | The best | 584 |
| HPS | Heals per second | 587 |
| brez | Battle resurrection | 587 |
| MT | Mistype | 587 |
| jc | Jewelcrafter | 587 |
| AH | Auction house | 587 |
| Farmed | Repetitively killed or gathered | 588 |
| HM | Hard mode | 588 |
| MC | Mind Control | 588 |
| pwnt | Owned | 589 |
| MDPS | Melee damage per second | 589 |
| LF1M | Looking for one more | 593 |
| bio | Bathroom | 594 |
| Wipe | Total death | 594 |
| int | Intellect | 594 |
| WOTLK | Wrath of the Lich King | 594 |
| rez | Resurrection | 595 |
| agi | Agility | 595 |
| Pull | Enter combat | 595 |
| DKP | Dragon kill points | 596 |
| spec | Specialization | 596 |
| WTB | Want to buy | 596 |
| Dal | Dalaran | 596 |
| str | Strength | 597 |
| BFA | Battle for Azeroth | 597 |
| PST | Please send tell | 597 |
| resto | Restoration | 597 |
| prot | Protection | 597 |
| de | Disenchant | 597 |
| RDPS | Ranged damage per second | 597 |
| MOP | Mists of Pandaria | 597 |
| bg | Battleground | 597 |
| kara | Karazhan | 597 |
| icc | Icecrown Citadel | 597 |
| naxx | Naxxaramas | 598 |
| 20m | Twenty man | 598 |
| PTR | Public test realm | 598 |
| Burst | Combination of attacks in a short span of time | 598 |
| RMP | Rogue, Mage, Priest | 598 |
| def | Defense | 598 |
| xmute | Transmute | 598 |
| SP | Spell power | 598 |
| FP | Flight point | 598 |
| Trash | Dungeon enemy mob groups | 598 |
| adds | Additional mobs | 598 |
| Ninja | Loot stealer | 599 |
| pat | Patrol | 599 |
| hp5 | Health per five seconds | 599 |
| Toon | Alternate character | 599 |
| BIS | Best in slot | 599 |
| shat | Shattrath City | 599 |
| Mule | Alternate character for storage | 599 |
| waggro | Wife aggro | 599 |
| disc | Discipline | 599 |
| Raid | Raid group | 599 |
| nax | Naxxaramas | 599 |
| DBM | Deadly Boss Mods | 599 |
| Bot mafia | A legion of automated World of Warcraft characters | 600 |
| GS | Gear score | 600 |
| HOT | Heal over time | 600 |
| BoT | Bastion of Twilight | 600 |
| LFW | Looking for work | 600 |
| belf | Blood Elf | 600 |
| arpen | Armor penetration | 600 |
| shatt | Shattrath City | 601 |
| mut | Mutilate | 601 |
| idd | Indeed | 601 |
| 10m | Ten man | 602 |
| ks | Kingslayer | 602 |
| wg | Wintergrasp | 602 |
| AE | Area of effect | 603 |
| LOM | Low on mana | 604 |
| BC | The Burning Crusade | 606 |
| GTG | Good to go | 607 |
| woot | Wonderful loot | 607 |