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mudhead

mudhead noun: a dedicated participant in multi-user dungeons.

Noun

mudhead (plural mudheads)

  1. (rare, slang) A dedicated participant in multi-user dungeons.
    • […] true mudheads sometimes spent so much time at it that they lost jobs, alienated friends, and failed to obtain academic degrees in the quest to attain wizard status.1997, Stuart Berg Flexner, Anne H. Soukhanov, Speaking Freely, page 72
    • “Is anybody still playing it now? On the Internet, I mean.”
      “I doubt it. Real MUDheads were so offended by it that they sabotaged the games and spammed the players […]2016, Jeffery Deaver, The Blue Nowhere, page 104

Forms of mudhead

pluralmudheads

Origin of mudhead

From MUD + -head.

Questions about mudhead

What does mudhead mean?
Mudhead means a dedicated participant in multi-user dungeons.
What part of speech is mudhead?
Mudhead is a noun.
What is the plural of mudhead?
The plural of mudhead is mudheads.

Words near mudhead in the dictionary

  1. mudguard
  2. mudguarded
  3. mudguards
  4. mudgut
  5. mudguts
  6. mudhead
  7. mudheads
  8. mudheap
  9. mudheaps
  10. mudhen
  11. mudhens

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