LARPy

English

Alternative forms

• larpy

Etymology

From LARP +‎ -y.

Adjective

LARPy (comparative more LARPy, superlative most LARPy)

1. (informal) Involving LARPing (live-action roleplaying).
   • 2012, Lizzie Stark, Leaving Mundania: Inside the Transformative World of Live Action Role-Playing Games, Chicago, I.L.: Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, page 227:

     Despite my walk on the larpy side, I have other deep commitments, like, say, a drive to write books, that might prevent the return of Portia, Ophelia, or Madame Blavatsky. And yet, the game is hard to relinquish.

   • 2015 December 4, Kate X Messer, “Gay Place: Grandma's Revenge”, in The Austin Chronicle‎^[1], volume 35, number 14, Austin, T.X.: The Austin Chronicle Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-09-29, page 45:

     Rude Mechs gets LARPy and invites you to be a roving audience member to navigate an intimate puzzle in the weirdest night of Dungeons & Dragons eva.

   • 2023 March 30, Dan Jakes, “Out in orbit”, in Chicago Reader‎^[2], Chicago, I.L.: Chicago Reader, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-06:

     Playwright Greg Moss's story is an admittedly odd duck, veering from conventional broad camp silliness to LARPy adventure drama to something more abstract.

2. (Internet slang, by extension, derogatory) Which LARPs (pretends to be something that one is not).
   • 2021 April 25, “r/therightcantmeme”, in Reddit‎^[3], r/tankiejerk, archived from the original on 18 September 2023:

     God I fucking hate that bot. Like it's so larpy and pathetic it fucking REEKS of only liking socialism for aesthetics

   • 2021 November 19, @DarrenJBeattie, Twitter‎^[4], archived from the original on 21 November 2021:

     While the Civil War talk is larpy and unrealistic, it is clear that America is too polarized to ever be a properly functioning country in the foreseeable future

   • 2022 February 20, “Anon hates ads”, in Reddit‎^[5], r/greentext, archived from the original on 18 September 2023:

     Lol we're the larpiest country ever. Everyone carries guns to stores, or shows up to protest in their little millitia with guns and play armor, everyone thinks they're some kinda badass who could take the world here.

   • 2023 September 10, @Inkaino, Twitter‎^[6], archived from the original on 18 September 2023:

     People who read theory and treat Marx's word like scripture are LARPy losers.