Glossary of player terms
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A number of unofficial terms find regular usage in the game. This glossary will explain some of the more common ones you may see:
- AFK- Away from Keyboard
- Baseball- See article
- Bunny hopping- See article
- Camping- See article
- Cap, Capping, Capped- A control point capture or the act of capturing a control point
- Cart/Kart, the- The payload in a payload map.
- Cheap- Something that is effective but requires little skill or effort
- Clan- A group of players who play together
- Circle strafe- See article
- Crit- A Critical Hit
- Crit Uber/Cruber/Kritcharge- A Kritzkrieg ÜberCharge
- DC/D/C- Disconnect/ed
- Demo- A Demoman
- Engie/ Engy- An Engineer
- Farming- The act of playing with the intention of getting achievements
- Griefing- See article
- Idler- Someone who is present on that server but AFK
- Intel- The Intelligence
- Juggling- See article
- Knock back- See article
- Lag- Erratic movement a player experiences due poor frame rates and/or a low connection
- Micspam- The act of repeatedly playing sounds through or generally abusing the voice chat feature
- Needle boosting- See article
- n00b/ noob/ newb- A derogatory term used to imply a player is new to the game and therefore unskilled
- Owned/ Pwned- A taunt used to inform a defeated player that they have been thoroughly beaten to an unseemly degree in a polite fashion
- Pub- A public server
- Scrim- A focused multiplayer match, often inter-clan
- SG/ Sentry/ Turret- A sentry gun
- Spam- An unwanted abundance of something such as chat messages, a certain class or a certain attack
- Spawn, The- The area in which you initially spawn and/or any area in which you respawn
- Spec- Spectate
- Spyro- Is a slang term used in game for an enemy spy disguised as a pyro.
- Stickies- Sticky bombs
- Tele'- A Teleporter
- Turtling- See article
- Uber- An ÜberCharge
- Ubered- Used to describe someone who is being ÜberCharged
