Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

death loop

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.26 in modern English

Syllables: death loop
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A situation in which a player respawns and inevitably dies, only to respawn in the exact same situation, causing the game to loop indefinitely.

Example Sentences

"However, upon being resurrected I found myself in the morning of a groundhog day fighting the scorpion I had just killed, exiting the room, feeling woozy, eating chocolate, falling to the ground. I was stuck in a death loop."
"The death loop represents a limit of the game system as well as the pleasures associated with fort-da present in the playing of digital games. Rather than the player failing, the machine has failed. As a type of bug, the death loop is not the only deadly, and deathly, reference to game-halting system failure. There is also the kill screen."

Inflected Forms

death loops (plural)

Phrases

kill screen

Frequently Paired Words

kill screen

Questions

What does death loop mean?: A situation in which a player respawns and inevitably dies, only to respawn in the exact same situation, causing the game to loop indefinitely.

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