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spawn camp

spawn camp verb: to stay near a spawn point in order to kill players immediately after they spawn.

Verb

spawn camp (third-person singular simple present spawn camps, present participle spawn camping, simple past and past participle spawn camped)

  1. (intransitive) To stay near a spawn point in order to kill players immediately after they spawn.
    • Some servers will ban you if you spawn camp too much.
    • While one team is effectively pinned down by spawn campers, the team that has successfully spawn camped may proceed to complete any other goals of the match unobstructed.2011, Galen Foresman, “What's Wrong with Camping?”, in Luke Cuddy, editor, Halo and Philosophy: Intellect Evolved (Popular Culture and Philosophy; 59), Chicago, I.L.; LaSalle, I.L.: Open Court...
  2. (transitive) To kill (players) immediately after they spawn.
    • How am I supposed to do anything if I get spawn camped in five seconds?
    • Of the turning point, he said, "We each got off our heroes and started playing random heroes. Dafran played Soldier for some reason, I stuck with Tracer, and we just ran to their spawn and then started spawn camping them."2020, Austin Moorhead, quoting Sinatraa, Young Guns: Obsession, Overwatch, and the Future of Gaming, New York, N.Y.: Hachette Books, →ISBN, page 64

Forms of spawn camp

third-person singular presentspawn camps
present participlespawn camping
past participlespawn camped
pastspawn camped
alternative formspawncamp

Origin of spawn camp

From spawn (“a location on a game map in which a player spawns”) + camp (“to stay beside something to gain an advantage”).

Words formed from spawn camp

Questions about spawn camp

What does spawn camp mean?
Spawn camp means to stay near a spawn point in order to kill players immediately after they spawn.
What part of speech is spawn camp?
Spawn camp is a verb.
What is the past tense of spawn camp?
The past tense of spawn camp is spawn camped.

Words near spawn camp in the dictionary

  1. spawled
  2. spawling
  3. spawlings
  4. spawls
  5. spawn
  6. spawn camp
  7. spawn camped
  8. spawn camper
  9. spawn campers
  10. spawn camping
  11. spawn camps

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