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)
Forms of startscum
| third-person singular present | startscums |
|---|---|
| present participle | startscumming |
| past participle | startscummed |
| past | startscummed |
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.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: startscum (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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