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Definition of avatar
avatar
noun
- an icon, pictorial, or 3D representation of a person online. In the online gaming community, for example, one's character as seen by other players is one's avatar. Origin: in Hindu mythology, an avatar is a physical incarnation of a deity on earth.
Her game avatar was getting its butt kicked.
- See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.
Last edited on Jan 12 2003. Submitted by Ray G. from Seattle, WA, USA on Jan 12 2003.
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Other terms relating to 'computer slang': | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "what's on your mind". | |
| Definitions include: "please". | |
| Definitions include: to use one's employer's unreleased product during the course of one's day. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "falling off chair, laughing out loud". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "I know, right?" | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "re-tweet." | |
| Definitions include: so compatible that even the known bugs of product A were replicated in the "bug-for-bug compatible" product B. | |
| Definitions include: "Tweep I'd like to follow." | |
| Definitions include: "Oh my fucking God." | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "you know what I mean." | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "just wondering". | |
| Definitions include: phrasing used to espouse the belief that something is (or should be) considered a bad idea. | |
| Definitions include: the breakage of links on the web as their targets disappear. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "rolling on floor laughing". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "good luck, have fun". | |
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| Definitions include: coffee. | |
| Definitions include: unattractive. | |
| Definitions include: any sport motorcycle or replica of a race motorcycle, usually Japanese in origin. | |
| Definitions include: to no longer give attention to. | |
| Definitions include: Extremely intoxicated (f--ked up beyond all recognition). | |
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| Definitions include: to wake a friend and significant other by dancing naked and yelling. | |
| Definitions include: a person that you would have sex with; not a gorgeous person but an average person | |
| Definitions include: something well done. | |
| Definitions include: to have sex. |
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