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See also: larp
English
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- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlɑːp/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlɑɹp/
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)p
Noun
LARP (countable and uncountable, plural LARPs) (games)
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Verb
LARP (third-person singular simple present LARPs, present participle LARPing, simple past and past participle LARPed)
- (games) Acronym of live-action roleplay.
- 2006, John Ringo, Princess of Wands:
- “Which is why I'm thinking LARPer,” Griffith argued. “Goths interact with non-Goths more in LARPing than anywhere else. And there are non-Goth look people that hang with the Goths.”
- (slang, by extension, often derogatory) To pretend to be something, or act as something.
- 2022 June 30, Anton Jäger (@AntonJaegermm), Twitter:
- When you think about it it really is crazy that the true sovereign of the world's imperial hegemon is basically an academic seminar in which a couple of legal scholars larp as historians all day.
- 2022 November 6, Mike White, “Italian Dream”, in Mike White, director, The White Lotus, season 2, episode 2, via HBO:
- Harper Spiller (Aubrey Plaza): I don't know what my problem is. I just feel like— I feel like we're LARPing as rich people.
Ethan Spiller (Will Sharpe): We're not LARPing. How— how are we LARPing?
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