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playthru

playthru is the alternative spelling of playthrough.

Meaning of playthrough

Noun

playthrough (plural playthroughs)

  1. (board games) The act, or a recording, of playing a game from start to finish.
    • I've started as many new playthroughs just to try a new idea for a centaur rifleman or steel-plated pugilist as I have because my last character met a grisly end after getting their head erupted by a psychic duelist. […] As exciting as my newest character build might be, it's Qud's setting that...2025 February, Lincoln Carpenter, “Best Roguelike 2024: Caves of Qud”, in PC Gamer (US), number 392, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2025, page 43; published online 22 December 2024
    Synonyms:
    run, walkthrough
  2. The cumulative monetary amount that must be wagered before an account may be withdrawn, typically stated as a multiple of the initial deposit.

Forms of playthru

pluralplaythrus

Questions about playthru

What is playthru the alternative spelling of?
Playthru is the alternative spelling of playthrough.

Words near playthru in the dictionary

  1. playtexts
  2. plaything
  3. playthings
  4. playthrough
  5. playthroughs
  6. playthru
  7. playthrus
  8. playtime
  9. playtimes
  10. playtoy
  11. playtoys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: playthru (page history and authors); playthrough (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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