Sekirov Dictionary

LARP

UK /lɑːp/US /lɑɹp/

noun 4
verb 3
forms 5

noun4

A live action role-playing game.
Acronym of live-action roleplaying.
(slang, disapproving) Synonym of LARPer (“someone who pretends”)
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(disapproving, figurative) A pretension, delusion, or perverse appropriation.
- LARP or not, the Femcels have a lesson for sadsack bedrotters everywhere—find a friend, hire a cracked Clateman, and start turning your cliché insecurities into corny-giddy art. — 2026

verb3

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(slang) to act in real life as if one were a kind of person one is not, in a way that seems silly to others, and sometimes even to believe it
- When you think about it it really is crazy that the true sovereign of the world's imperial hegemon is basically an academic seminar in which a couple of legal scholars larp as historians all day. — 2022
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to take part in live-action role-play, a game in which players act as characters in person, often wearing costumes
- “Which is why I'm thinking LARPer,” Griffith argued. “Goths interact with non-Goths more in LARPing than anywhere else. And there are non-Goth look people that hang with the Goths.” — 2006
(slang, disapproving) To appropriate performatively, maliciously, or without real understanding.

forms

LARPed · larped · LARPing · LARPs · larps

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