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perma

perma verb: to permakill.

Verb

perma (third-person singular simple present permas or perma's, present participle permaing or perma'ing or perma-ing, simple past and past participle permaed or perma'd or perma'ed)

  1. (slang, transitive) To permakill.
    • My points were that a permanent death model was used on LegendMUD the predecesor to UO and it failed miserably. Promoted ongoing endless "hate" wars of permaing other peoples characters (perma'd character would make new one, build up, hunt down who perma'd him, that person would respond in same).1997 December 21, Jag, “Re: Good Post/Idea”, in rec.games.computer.ultima.online (Usenet)
  2. (Internet, transitive) To permaban.
    • Following the stream, Elle Grenn confirmed she had been permabanned. In a now-deleted tweet, she wrote “Yesterday, some of the RP that took place was solely based on meta information that shouldn’t have been out. I was really upset about this as it cut a lot of the RP with the PD completely out, so...2021 November 4, Calum Patterson, “Twitch streamer Elle Grenn banned from NoPixel GTA RP after metagaming accusations”, in Dexerto

Noun

perma (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Permanent.

Forms of perma

third-person singular presentpermas
third-person singular presentperma's
present participlepermaing
present participleperma'ing
present participleperma-ing
past participlepermaed
pastpermaed
past participleperma'd
pastperma'd
past participleperma'ed
pastperma'ed

Questions about perma

What does perma mean?
Perma means to permakill.
What part of speech is perma?
Perma can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of perma?
The past tense of perma is permaed.

Words near perma in the dictionary

  1. perlèche
  2. perm
  3. Perm Krai
  4. Perm'
  5. perm.
  6. perma
  7. perma-
  8. perma-ban
  9. perma-banned
  10. perma-banning
  11. perma-bans

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