teamkill

English

Etymology

From team +‎ kill.

Pronunciation

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Verb

teamkill (third-person singular simple present teamkills, present participle teamkilling, simple past and past participle teamkilled)

1. (video games, transitive) To kill another player on one's own team.
   • 2022 May 19, Simarded, 3:08 from the start, in Experiencing Death In Every Way In SCP Secret Laboratory - Part 2‎^[1], archived from the original on 11 February 2023:

     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!

Noun

teamkill (plural teamkills)

1. (chiefly video games) The killing of another player on one's own team.
   • 2021 January 20, Drachinifel, 22:02 from the start, in Type 93 Long Lance Torpedo - Long Range Hole Poking Device‎^[2], archived from the original on 1 November 2022:

     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.

Anagrams

• kill team, metallik