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spawnkill

verb

Etymology

From spawn + kill.

  1. derived from kolla — “to hit on the head, harm”
  2. inherited from cwellan — “to kill, murder, execute”
  3. derived from *gʷelH-✻ — “to throw, hit, hurt by throwing”
  4. inherited from *kwuljaną✻
  5. inherited from *kwulljan✻
  6. inherited from *cyllan✻
  7. inherited from killen
  8. compounded as spawnkill — “spawn + kill”

Definitions

  1. To kill a player or NPC enemy at a spawn point.

    • He was spawnkilled about 30-40 times in 20 minutes by one player.
    • It is ridiculously easy to spawn-kill the VC at their outdoor spawn location, from several relatively safe locations inside the Embassy's ground floor, especially the library windows.
    • Nothing lowers your morale faster than some jerk spawn killing you for the fifth time and yelling that your mother worked in a Nevada brothel.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for spawnkill. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA