LARP

LARP

See also: larp

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Noun

LARP (countable and uncountable, plural LARPs) (games)

  2. (uncountable) Acronym of live-action roleplaying.
  4. (countable) A live action role-playing game.
  5. (figurative, derogatory) A pretension.
  6. (informal, derogatory, fandom slang) A person who pretends to have more knowledge in a subject than they really do.
    Synonyms: ultracrepidarian, poser

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Verb

LARP (third-person singular simple present LARPs, present participle LARPing, simple past and past participle LARPed)

  1. (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.”
  2. (slang, by extension, often derogatory) To pretend to be something, to act as something, or to delude oneself into believing to be something.
    • 2022 June 30, Anton Jäger (@AntonJaegermm), Twitter‎[1]:
      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?
  3. (Internet slang, fandom slang, derogatory, transitive) To appropriate performatively, maliciously, or without real understanding.

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Descendants

  • → Russian: ла́рп (lárp)

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Further reading

  • “LARP”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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