heated gaming moment
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.88 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An instance of a video gamer doing something offensive, such as saying a racial slur, in a moment of frustration or carelessness.
Humorous; Slang
Example Sentences
- "Twitch has a strict Terms of Service that streamers must adhere to or they will face bans. Trihex, one of the more popular speedrunners on the platform, was banned for 30 days for saying the homophobic slur while in a particularly heated gaming moment."
- "Later that year, after he used a different slur while livestreaming a game, the phrase "heated gaming moment" entered the lexicon as an excuse for using derogatory language while livestreaming video games."
- "Vertagear had a heated gaming moment on social media."
Etymology
Unintentionally coined by Ian Miles Cheong in a 2017 tweet defending YouTuber PewDiePie's use of the word nigger during a livestream of the video game PUBG: Battlegrounds, which asserted that he had merely done so in a "heated gaming moment".