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startscum

startscum verb: to start and quit the game repeatedly in order to obtain a favourable starting situation (this being generated at random for each game).

Verb

startscum (third-person singular simple present startscums, present participle startscumming, simple past and past participle startscummed)

  1. (derogatory, intransitive) To start and quit the game repeatedly in order to obtain a favourable starting situation (this being generated at random for each game).

Forms of startscum

third-person singular presentstartscums
present participlestartscumming
past participlestartscummed
paststartscummed

Origin of startscum

From start + scum.

Words formed from startscum

Questions about startscum

What does startscum mean?
Startscum means to start and quit the game repeatedly in order to obtain a favourable starting situation (this being generated at random for each game).
What part of speech is startscum?
Startscum is a verb.
What is the past tense of startscum?
The past tense of startscum is startscummed.

Words near startscum in the dictionary

  1. starts up
  2. starts up on
  3. starts with a clean sheet
  4. starts with a clean sheet of paper
  5. starts with a clean slate
  6. startscum
  7. startscummed
  8. startscummer
  9. startscummers
  10. startscumming
  11. startscums

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