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noclip

noclip verb: to navigate through a game environment with collisions disabled, so as to be able to pass through solid walls, etc.

Verb

noclip (third-person singular simple present noclips, present participle noclipping, simple past and past participle noclipped)

  1. To navigate through a game environment with collisions disabled, so as to be able to pass through solid walls, etc.
  2. (broadly) To pass through a solid object or otherwise teleport.
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    Synonyms:
    phase, glitch

Synonyms of noclip

Forms of noclip

third-person singular presentnoclips
present participlenoclipping
past participlenoclipped
pastnoclipped

Origin of noclip

From no clip, possibly chosen originally as a debug code to allow developers to investigate clipping (in the sense of a computer graphics technique to not render unseen objects) or due to a mix up between clipping (in the sense of checking the player remains inside the boundaries of the play area) and collision detection. Perhaps originates from the 1991 game Commander Keen IV: Secret of the Oracle, where using the appropriate cheat code displays a message "No clipping ON".

Questions about noclip

What does noclip mean?
Noclip means to navigate through a game environment with collisions disabled, so as to be able to pass through solid walls, etc.
What part of speech is noclip?
Noclip is a verb.
What is the past tense of noclip?
The past tense of noclip is noclipped.

Words near noclip in the dictionary

  1. nocking
  2. nockless
  3. nocks
  4. nocktat
  5. nocktats
  6. noclip
  7. noclipped
  8. noclipping
  9. noclips
  10. nocobactin
  11. nocodasole

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