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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From criticism, critique, critical, criterium, and critical hit, by shortening.
Noun
crit (countable and uncountable, plural crits)
- (informal) Criticism.
- (informal) Critique.
- (informal) A proponent of critical legal studies.
- (cycling) A criterium race.
- (slang, roleplaying games) A critical hit.
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Verb
crit (third-person singular simple present crits, present participle critting, simple past and past participle crit or critted)
- (transitive, slang, roleplaying games) To land a critical hit on.
- 2010 Christopher Wragg, replying to Timothy Ryan's MMO Balancing Techniques Gamasutra
- Now when talking randomness, players don't mind as long as it's not a negative random chance, for instance, missing causes more annoyance than an opponent dodging, we don't mind an opponent critting against us, but we hate it if something we do affects how much damage we take (aka rolling a 1).
- January 2013 Elliot Metson, Team Fortress 2 guide - conquering Mann vs Machine's expert mode PC Gamer
- Finally, the Axtinguisher just about edges the Neon Annihilator as the best melee weapon because you're in control of whether your target's on fire or not, whereas the Neon Annihilator's critting of wet targets is down to your team.
- August 2013 Nic rowen, Rogue Legacy: Family survival guide Destructoid
- It's easy to look past his low health when he's critting for triple damage on more than half his hits.
- 2016 Dota 2 7.00 patch adds Monkey King, talents, new HUD, more PC Invasion
- Boundless Strike looks like Fissure only without the giant wall of earth, instead critting and stunning enemies in a line.
2017, League of Legends Patch 7.11 change list, The Rift Herald:Fixed a bug where, when Statikk Shiv’s chain lighting was proc’d by Pulsefire Ezreal’s Q - Mystic Shot, it wasn’t properly critting at 100% crit chance
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Etymology 2
Short for haematocrit.
Noun
crit (uncountable)
- (medicine, colloquial) Haematocrit.
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Catalan
Etymology
Deverbal from cridar.
Pronunciation
Noun
crit m (plural crits)
- cry (shout or scream)
- cry (words shouted or screamed)
- cry (sound made by an animal)
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