ARG

ARG

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Argentina.

   Synonym: AR (alpha-2)

ARG (plural ARGs)

1. Initialism of alternate reality game.

   Coordinate terms: AR, VG

   • 2020 September 22, Clive Thompson, “QAnon Is Like a Game—a Most Dangerous Game”, in WIRED‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 February 2021:

     This is why he's convinced that game dynamics help explain why QAnon is such a seductive conspiracy. It plugs into the psychological lures that make ARGs so fun. […] But it showed how easily ARG culture can be hijacked toward delusional ends.

2. (nautical, military) Initialism of amphibious ready group.

   Hypernym: RG

• → Japanese: エーアールジー, ARG (ARG)

• Gra, gar, grá, RAG, Rag, Gar, RGA, rag, GAR, agr-

Borrowed from English ARG.

• IPA^(key): [e̞ːa̠ːɾɯ̟ʑiː]

ARG(エーアールジー) • (ē-āru-jī) 

1. ARG: alternate reality game