Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Aggressive or violent behavior.
- noun Irritation or exasperation.
- adjective Aggressive or violent.
- adjective Daring and skillful, especially in a sport such as surfing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun informal British usage aggravation or aggression.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Aggravation ;bother . - noun chiefly UK
Aggressive behavior; loud, intimidating behavior that convincingly threatensviolence without necessarily actually becoming violent. - noun online gaming A measure of how
belligerent a player is – a high value may inspire either avoidance or preemptive hostile action from enemies. - noun online gaming Hostile attention from an enemy gained by acting belligerently.
- adjective Australia, New Zealand, slang
Angry . - adjective online gaming Liable to attack without being attacked first (said of monsters).
- adjective UK, US, slang
Hardcore ,aggressive . - verb online gaming, intransitive To become
aggressive towards theplayer 's character.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (informal British usage) aggravation or aggression
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Council inspectors to film 'aggro' mums HOLDFAST Bay parking inspectors are wearing mini video cameras to capture abuse from "aggro" mothers, pinged for illegally parking outside schools.
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Tactical options are present and correct via a target marking system and the use of an "aggro" meter (more on that later), but in large you'll be doing a whole lot of running and a whole lot of gunning.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Co-op sits at the heart of everything, with the core idea being "aggro".
Pocket-lint.com Tobias Henry 2010
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The aforementioned "aggro" system makes a comeback and is still simple to use yet rewarding as ever.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Units, left to their own devices, react only to an 'aggro' radius put out by the enemy, and have no qualm against letting fellow soldiers get gunned down if they're resting spitefully outside of that radius.
Gaming Nexus 2009
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The player with the most "aggro" is the player that the monster will attack.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] MikeDFowler 2009
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If both of your Siege Engines are alive, he'll trade 'aggro' between those.
WoW.com 2009
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DoT spells have the advantage of creating less "aggro" for the player than spells that do their damage all at once.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] MikeDFowler 2009
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I'm just trying to explain why people may have gotten all "aggro" over the review.
FlickFilosopher.com 2009
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I'm just trying to explain why people may have gotten all "aggro" over the review.
FlickFilosopher.com 2009
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