Esports Jargon

noun a word that represents a person, place, thing, or idea

preposition a word that shows the relationship between a noun (or pronoun) and other words in a sentence

• The World Cup draw resulted in a group of death, with several top-ranked teams facing off in the early stages of the tournament.
• Man, did you see the group of death in the Euro qualifiers? It's going to be intense!
• The Champions League group of death is stacked this year - it's going to be a bloodbath.
• Navigating through that office project felt like being in a group of death, with tough challenges at every turn.

noun a term used in online gaming to describe the act of ambushing or stealing from another player

verb to ambush or steal from another player in an online game

• The group of thieves attempted to gank the valuable artifacts from the museum.
• I can't believe they tried to gank the loot right in front of us!
• Watch out for that player, they like to gank unsuspecting opponents in the game.
• The competitor tried to gank customers from our business by offering lower prices.

noun a sudden and abrupt decision to leave a game or activity out of frustration or anger

• The player decided to rage-quit the game after losing multiple times in a row.
• He rage-quit as soon as he got eliminated from the tournament.
• She was so frustrated that she just rage-quit and turned off her console.
• Sometimes it's better to take a break and cool off rather than rage-quit in anger.