LARP
See also: larp
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlɑːp/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlɑɹp/
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)p
Noun edit
LARP (plural LARPs)
- (games) Acronym of live-action roleplaying.
Translations edit
live-action role-play
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Verb edit
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) To pretend to be something, or act as something.
- 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?