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votekick

votekick noun: a vote to expel a player, taken by the other players.

Noun

votekick (plural votekicks)

  1. A vote to expel a player, taken by the other players.
    • Is there some identifier for connected players, other than netname, such as a constant player number? (like player.number or something) I'm trying to write, amongst other things, a votekick, but since annoying people can continuously change their names and colors, it would have to rely on something...1996 September 22, k...@mail.utexas.edu, “client identifiers/other stuff”, in rec.games.computer.quake.editing (Usenet)
    • Each player can only call a votekick once every five minutes.2003, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield (manual), Ubi Soft, page 44

Verb

votekick (third-person singular simple present votekicks, present participle votekicking, simple past and past participle votekicked)

  1. (transitive) To expel (a player) as a result of such a vote.

Examples of votekick in a sentence

  • Votekicks [America‘s Army] Yes [Counter-Strike: Source] No [Battlefield 2] Yes2008, Anders Sundnes Løvlie, “The Rhetoric of Persuasive Games. Freedom and Discipline in America’s Army”, in Stephan Günzel, Michael...
  • • The game needs a better anti-griefing system to prevent team-killers, gamethrowers and votekick abusers2019 May 14, Ben Walker, “MORDHAU Review: Medieval combat in one of the best first-person melee games out there”, in Daily Star, archived...
  • The votekick system, as with democracy itself, was designed with good intentions in mind. […] However, as one could predict, Roblox’s votekick functionality is often abused.2021 August 7, Robert Schmad, “What being a gamer has taught me about the limits of democracy”, in Washington Examiner, archived from the...

Forms of votekick

Noun
pluralvotekicks
Verb
third-person singular presentvotekicks
present participlevotekicking
past participlevotekicked
pastvotekicked

Origin of votekick

From vote + kick.

Questions about votekick

What does votekick mean?
Votekick means a vote to expel a player, taken by the other players.
How do you use votekick in a sentence?
Votekicks [America‘s Army] Yes [Counter-Strike: Source] No [Battlefield 2] Yes
What part of speech is votekick?
Votekick can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of votekick?
The plural of votekick is votekicks.

Words near votekick in the dictionary

  1. voted up
  2. voted with one's feet
  3. voted with one's wallet
  4. voteen
  5. voteens
  6. votekick
  7. votekicked
  8. votekicking
  9. votekicks
  10. voteless
  11. votelessness

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