powerleveling

Verb

powerlevel (third-person singular simple present powerlevels, present participle (US) powerleveling or (UK) powerlevelling, simple past and past participle (US) powerleveled or (UK) powerlevelled)

1. (intransitive, slang) To play so as to advance levels in a game as quickly as possible.
   • Returning to the convention area later we find EQ and its players have reclaimed the PCs, presenting a row of T-shirt prints ranging from gangsta rap to Ghost In The Shell. Some play side by side, some frantically text distant servermates; others are powerlevelling with near-catatonic detachment.2004 June, “Lost in convention: What happens when thousands of EverQuest fans meet in Las Vegas? We find out…”, in Edge, number 137, Bath, Somerset: Future Publishing Ltd, →ISSN, page 092, column 1
2. (slang, transitive) To cause (a game character or another player) to advance levels in a game as quickly as possible.
   • But they did all shell out big bucks to have simulated lives in place of actual lives. They just don’t want to do this in PUBLIC. Which is what an on-line game is. You can find plenty of geeks willing to justify publically^([sic]) powerlevelling an orc avatar, but how many will you find willing to...2003 February 10, Tyson, “Re: Hard to believe....”, in SlashNOT; quoted in “The End of Similization As We Know It”, in Matthew Strebe, Michael Moncur, Charles Perkins, The Best of SlashNOT...