Community & LFG

Toxic

adjectivegeneral gaming term

Hostile, abusive, or deliberately unpleasant behavior toward other players.

Toxicity can include insults, screaming, harassment, blame, threats, discriminatory language, or sabotaging a game after a disagreement. It should be separated from ordinary competitive criticism.

Used in a sentence

“Competitive is fine; toxic is not.”

Usually an insult. Listed because players use it, not as a judgement of anyone.

Community slang changes over time and can mean different things in different game editions, modes and groups.

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