Warcrafter

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A player of the Warcraft franchise of video games.

    "Within a few weeks of its release, avid Warcrafters had uploaded dozens of home-brew scenarios, filling up the file areas of online services and bulletin boards. […] Warcraft II may be the current king of the scenario editing hill, but the battle is far from over."

  2. 2
    A player of the Warcraft franchise of video games.; A player of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.

    "Choose from the classic Warcraft races and character types for your avatar, and then join thousands of other Warcrafters to investigate dungeons, huge cities, snowy mountains, magical forests and scorching deserts."

Example

More examples

"Within a few weeks of its release, avid Warcrafters had uploaded dozens of home-brew scenarios, filling up the file areas of online services and bulletin boards. […] Warcraft II may be the current king of the scenario editing hill, but the battle is far from over."

Etymology

From Warcraft (“a franchise of video games”) + -er. Denoting World of Warcraft players, by ellipsis from Warcraft (“World of Warcraft”).

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