LARP

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Two players engaged in a LARP.

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LARP (plural LARPs)

  1. (games) Acronym of live-action roleplaying.

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LARP (third-person singular simple present LARPs, present participle LARPing, simple past and past participle LARPed)

  1. (games) Acronym of live-action roleplay.
    • 2006, John Ringo, Princess of Wands:
      “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.”
  2. (slang, by extension) To pretend to be something, or act as something.
    • 2022 June 30, Anton Jäger (@AntonJaegermm), Twitter:
      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 November 6, Mike White, “Italian Dream”, in Mike White, director, The White Lotus, season 2, episode 2, via HBO:
      Harper Spiller (Aubrey Plaza): I don't know what my problem is. I just feel like— I feel like we're LARPing as rich people.
      Ethan Spiller (Will Sharpe): We're not LARPing. How— how are we LARPing?

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