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ragequit en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈɹeɪd͡ʒˌkwɪt/
- (Australia) audio
Etymology
From rage + quit.
Meanings
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(slang) The act of quitting an online video game in anger.
Hardison: I don't know what happened. I had 'em and then I just—
Nate: Didn't anticipate the ragequit.
Hardison: You know gamer terminology?
Nate: I know the key to a good game is balancing boredom and frustration. Now the game — the puzzle's too easy, then the mark — the player — gets bored and walks away. The puzzle's too hard, then the player gets frustrated, and quits in a rage: ragequit.
2012 January 1, “The Gold Job”, in Leverage, season 4, episode 16 (Television), spoken by Alec Hardison and Nate Ford (Aldis Hodge and Timothy Hutton):
Forms
ragequit en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /ˈɹeɪd͡ʒˌkwɪt/
- (Australia) audio
Etymology
From rage + quit.
Meanings
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(intransitive, slang) To quit an online video game in anger.
Having had my share of ragequitting teammates and unfinished campaigns -- I still haven't completed a L4D2 campaign on Expert -- I'll take a positive outlook and say that the complaints about difficulty amount to a longer and taller learning curve, that will give this game a longer lifespan than the first.
2009 November 28, rms, “What have you been playing... IN NOVEMBER 2009?”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet), message-ID <herjp3$ucc$1@news.eternal-september.org>:Cheap insta-kill attacks have made me ragequit at least twice.
2010 February 8, Chris Whitworth, “Pow, Wallop & Bam”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet), message-ID <slrnhn0725.gik.usenet.chris@parm.vs.topper.me.uk>:
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(broadly, intransitive, slang) To quit (something) in anger.
Forms
Deriveds
ragequitter
Relateds
flounce · sore loser · Alt-F4
Translations (10)
fr ragequitter (slang: quit a video game in anger) · es cuitear iracundamente (slang: quit a video game in anger) · ko 강종하다 (slang: quit a video game in anger) · pt ragequit (slang: quit a video game in anger) · nl ragequitten (slang: quit a video game in anger) · ja 切断 (slang: quit a video game in anger) · de ragequitten (slang: quit a video game in anger) · cmn 怒退 (slang: quit a video game in anger) · sv ragequitta (slang: quit a video game in anger) · mr रेजक्विट (slang: quit a video game in anger)