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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: a metaphorical computer network for data transfer. | |
| Definitions include: variant of "LOL" (i.e. "laugh out loud".) | |
| Definitions include: to cause a software or hardware bug to become evident. | |
| Definitions include: From a popular image created in 2002 that circulated the web. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "massively multiplayer online role playing game." | |
| Definitions include: an attractive female. | |
| Definitions include: an insufficient (and often dismissive) explanation of something complex. | |
| Definitions include: to add something to the beginning; "prefix". | |
| Definitions include: an error code used to refer to user error. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "safe for work." | |
| Definitions include: non-elegant, in a way that solves a problem using the sheer amount of computer processing available, rather than finding (or inventing) a smarter technique. | |
| Definitions include: "okay, thanks, 'bye". | |
| Definitions include: a set of information services available to subscribers only. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "because". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "in my experience". | |
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| Definitions include: to tease or harass. | |
| Definitions include: Euphemism for vagina. Compare with whispering eye "Had myself a juicy morning orange last night" "Yeah, ended up in a thigh choke hold till I passed out last night after I bit into a delicious morning orange myself. Just couldn't help it." | |
| Definitions include: penis | |
| Definitions include: a flaccid penis after ejaculation. | |
| Definitions include: to bother or upset. | |
| Definitions include: The Salvation Army. | |
| Definitions include: very much wanting a baby. | |
| Definitions include: a couch on which prospective employees are expected to provide sexual favors in order to secure the position. | |
| Definitions include: complaint, disagreement, or argument. | |
| Definitions include: restaurant equivalent of going postal, except when you go culinary people get cut up, not shot. |
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