aggro

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Aggravation; bother.
  2. Aggressive behaviour; loud, intimidating behaviour that convincingly threatens violence without necessarily actually becoming violent.
  3. A measure of a player's level of belligerence.
  4. Hostile attention from an enemy.
adj
  1. Angry.
  2. Aggressive; inclined to attack (including, in video games, without having first been attacked).
  3. Of a deck, designed for aggressive play that seeks to defeat the opponent in the early stages of the game.
  4. Of a player, favoring such decks.
  5. Hardcore, aggressive.
verb
  1. To become aggressive towards the player's character.
  2. To cause (a non-player character) to become aggressive towards the player's character.

Pronunciation

/ˈæɡ.ɹoʊ/ /ˈæɡ.ɹəʊ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-aggro.wav EN-AU ck1 aggro.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-aggro.wav

Word forms

aggro agro more aggro most aggro aggros aggroes aggroing aggroed

Etymology

From a clipping of aggravation + -o (diminutive suffix), influenced by aggressive.

Antonyms

Derived words

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.