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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 of "away from keyboard." | |
| Definitions include: a small piece of a design that doesn't work as well as the rest of the design. | |
| Definitions include: acronym "not your personal army". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "laughing my rear off" or "laughing my rump off". | |
| Definitions include: abbreviated form of "okay". | |
| Definitions include: to hack, with the result being something quickly and sloppily created, or modified to solve a particular problem. | |
| Definitions include: unwanted optical media (e.g. CDs) received as junk mail. | |
| Definitions include: in an update or sequel to a video game, to make a weapon weak or weaker, such that it's like a Nerf gun. | |
| Definitions include: video log, running series of short videos posted online. | |
| Definitions include: a hack or involving a hack. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "bastard operator from hell". | |
| Definitions include: "I see". | |
| Definitions include: peeping tom. | |
| Definitions include: a videogame that requires mashing buttons to play, rather than finesse. | |
| Definitions include: of input used to test a program or an algorithm, specifically designed to make the test subject perform as poorly as possible. | |
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| Definitions include: to be lacking, or slacking. | |
| Definitions include: an extremely attractive woman with striking sex appeal. | |
| Definitions include: mis-hearing of "stark-raving mad." | |
| Definitions include: From the TV show, Lizzie McGuire. | |
| Definitions include: An abbreviated form of "mom and them," that refers to one's mother's, family, and friends. | |
| Definitions include: Better than usual | |
| Definitions include: the leet spelling of "elite". | |
| Definitions include: an attractive person, usually male. | |
| Definitions include: to leave. | |
| Definitions include: to perform cunnilingus; "go down on". |
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