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RDM

RDM verb: to arbitrarily kill players in a video game, typically players on one's own team when friendly fire is enabled.

Verb

RDM (third-person singular simple present RDMs, present participle RDMing, simple past and past participle RDMed)

  1. To arbitrarily kill players in a video game, typically players on one's own team when friendly fire is enabled.
    • Do not RDM in the lobby.
    • Most servers have limitations on what’s acceptable for wardens and guards to do, but that’s mostly to prevent RDMing2017 January 25, John Butler, “Archived copy”, in The Inquisitr, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2017

Forms of RDM

third-person singular presentRDMs
present participleRDMing
past participleRDMed
pastRDMed

Origin of RDM

Initialism of random deathmatch.

Words formed from RDM

Questions about RDM

What does RDM mean?
RDM means to arbitrarily kill players in a video game, typically players on one's own team when friendly fire is enabled.
What part of speech is RDM?
RDM is a verb.
What is the past tense of RDM?
The past tense of RDM is RDMed.

Words near RDM in the dictionary

  1. RDH
  2. RDHs
  3. RDJ
  4. RDL
  5. RDLs
  6. RDM
  7. RDMA
  8. RDMed
  9. RDMer
  10. RDMers
  11. RDMing

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