RPG
verbEtymology Initialism. When applied to a "rocket-propelled grenade" it derives from Russian РПГ (RPG), initialism of ручно́й противота́нковый гранатомёт (ručnój protivotánkovyj granatomjót, “hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher”), of which "rocket-propelled grenade" is a backronym (though an accurate description of the weapon system).
- When I got to my new school, it didn’t take me too long to find a group to hang out with. We RPGed, talked books, movies, and comics. We played video games, both in person and in co-op.2016, David Liss, chapter 2, in Randoms, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, page 9:
- When you start RPGing, you describe an action your character is taking. Sometimes your DM will interject, asking you to make a test for success (typically a dice roll).2016, Teri Litorco, The Civilized Guide to Tabletop Gaming: Rules Every Gamer Must Live By, Adams Media, page 145:
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- None of them really wanted to game without Beth. For one, it didn’t seem fair, and for another, the facts that she had a great imagination and really no concept of how RPGing was “supposed” to work meant she sprang stuff on the group that had livened up the games no end.2020 February 23, Mercedes Lackey, Cody Martin, Breaking Silence, Baen Books:
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Engineering, Government, Military, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Politics, Tools, War, Weaponry To attack with a rocket-propelled grenade.
- However, one group of Americans at the Embassy doesn’t creep around quivering in anxiety about being RPGed or machinegunned.1981 November 23, B.P., “U.S. Embassy”, in Soldier of Fortune, volume 6, number 11, page 53:
- It was like the movie Black Hawk Down without the rioters. I was RPGed so often I gradually stopped ducking.2006 September 23, Robert D. Kaplan, Imperial Grunts: […], Vintage Books, page 317:
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- The Taliban had buried a triple mine in the road a week ago and remotely detonated it under a Spartan. Then they RPGed the Scimitar trapped ahead of it.2009, Ed Macy, Hellfire, HarperPress, page 343: