Glossary of player terms

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A number of unofficial terms find regular usage in the game. This glossary lists some of the more common ones you may see:


AFK- Away from Keyboard

Aerial / Air shot / Airshot- Hitting or killing an opponent in midair, usually followed from as a result of juggling. An aerial is a type of air shot.

Back-capping / Back-capturing - See article

Bodyshot - refers to snipers who (repeatedly) bodyshot people, rather then headshot, resulting in the enemy having to go get more health.

Bunny hopping / B-Hopping- See article

Camping / Spawn Camping- See article

Cap, Capping, Capped- A control point capture or the act of capturing a control point.

Carpets / Sticky Carpets / Sticky Bomb Carpets- Large groups of sticky bombs that render certain areas impassable until dealt with.

Bomb, the / Kart- The Payload Cart

Cheap- Describing a tactic that is effective but requires little skill or effort. Often combined with 'spammer'.

Circle strafe- See article

Crit(s)- A Critical Hit

Crocket - A Critical Rocket

Crit Uber / Cruber / Kritcharge / Kritz- A Kritzkrieg ÜberCharge

DC / D/C- Disconnect/ed

Demo- A Demoman

Demoknight- A Demoman that is carrying the Chargin' Targe and the Eyelander.

DH - Used to describe the Direct Hit rocket launcher.

DM- A player or class's "DeathMatch", meaning their combat prowess

Engie / Engy- An Engineer

Facestab- A glitched backstab that registers as an instant kill despite hitting the face.

Failstab- A glitched backstab that fails to register as a kill on hitting.

FAN - Used to describe the Force-of-nature scattergun.

Farming- The act of playing with the intention of getting achievements.

Griefing- See article

Idler- Someone who is present on the server but is AFK. Also someone who uses external idling programs or uses idling servers.

Insta-kill / Instakill- A kill which is inflicted instantly in a single hit, such as out-of-bounds fall damage, being hit by a train or being caught in the payload explosion.

Intel / Flag- The Intelligence

Juggling- See article

KDR - Kill death ratio, used in a conversation such as "Player A:whats your kdr?? Player B:27 Kills 7 Deaths"

Knock back- See article

Lag- Erratic movement a player experiences or witnesses in other players due to poor frame rates and/or a low connection.

Leeching- Official term for the act of a disguised Spy gaining health from an enemy Medic, Dispenser or Payload.

Mic- A microphone, used for communication over voice chat or Xbox live.

Micspam- The act of repeatedly playing sounds through or generally abusing the voice chat feature.

Needle boosting- See article

Nest- The collectivized area of an engineer and his buildings

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.

Pipebomb- An alternate name of the Demoman's sticky bombs.

Poof / Poofing - Term for the compression blast ability

Poor and Irish - A player who does not own any hats.

Pub- A public server

PUG- Pick Up Game/Group, referring to a private game with team compositions determined by out-of-game communication (as opposed to a clan match or pub)

Ragequit- When a player leaves the server deliberately straight after getting dominated multiple times or getting steamrolled by the other team (usually out of frustration).

Revving- Spinning up the Minigun using the alternate-fire button

Rush- See article

Scrim- A focused multiplayer match, often inter-clan

SG / Sentry / Turret- A sentry gun

Sol / Solly- A Soldier

Spamming / Spam- An unwanted abundance of something such as chat messages, a specific class or a certain attack.

Spawn, The- The area in which you initially spawn and/or any area in which you respawn.

Spawn Camping - A situation in which the enemy team is camping your spawn entrance, killing you as soon as you get out.

Spec- Spectate

Spy Cap- Using a Spy to secretly capture a control point by slipping behind enemy lines and uncloaking on the point.

Spy Check - Usually used to ask team members to check for spies.

Spy Crab- A Spy who, by crouching and looking up while having the Disguise Kit equipped, has attained the movements of a crab. Also refers to the taunt associated with the Disguise Kit.

Spyro- Is a slang term used in game for an enemy Spy disguised as a Pyro.

SR / SCO-RES- The Scottish Resistance

Stab n Sap- The act as a spy of going behind an engineer, backstabbing him then immediately switching to the sapper and sapping his sentry before it turns around, then sapping his remaining gear before he respawns.

Stairstab- The act of jumping over another player's head from an elevated height as a Spy and backstabbing them.

Steamroll - To take capture points/intelligence/move the cart extremely quickly at the begging of a game, often resulting in a crushing defeat (especially when using numerous heavy-medic pairs).

Stickies- Sticky bombs

Tele / TP- A Teleporter

Turtling- See article

Uber- An ÜberCharge

Ubered- Someone who is being ÜberCharged

W+m1- (Forward + Mouse1) Derogatory term for the act of suicidally attacking head on with the flamethrower or backburner as a Pyro. It is also used to imply the pyro class requires no skill.

Wallhugging - Referring to a sniper always hiding behind a wall and only coming out to make a shot.

Wrenching- The act of repairing/upgrading a building with your wrench.