teamkill
English
Etymology
team + kill
Verb
teamkill (third-person singular simple present teamkills, present participle teamkilling, simple past and past participle teamkilled)
- (video games, transitive) To kill another player on one's own team.
- 2022 May 19, Simarded, Experiencing Death In Every Way In SCP Secret Laboratory - Part 2, archived from the original on 11 February 2023, retrieved 10 February 2023, 3:08 from the start:
- Wait, I was killed by... a facility guard throwing the ball?! So, wait, I got teamkilled by SCP-018, which is good 'cause that's on my list of ways to die, but it was by a teammate?! I mean, that works, but I didn't think that was possible - OK!
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Noun
teamkill (plural teamkills)
- (chiefly video games) The killing of another player on one's own team.
- 2021 January 20, Drachinifel, Type 93 Long Lance Torpedo - Long Range Hole Poking Device, archived from the original on 1 November 2022, retrieved 1 November 2022, 22:02 from the start:
- Albeit, at the time, the Type 93 would go on to be the central star of the most spectacular teamkill of the war, when the cruiser Mogami fired a salvo of six Type 93s at the cruiser USS Houston, missed, but, with their long range, the torpedoes quite happily motored on and blew up four friendly transports and a minesweeper. Yeah, not such a good day.
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Anagrams
- kill team, metallik