Slang dictionary

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The slang dictionary is a list of informal words, expressions, and abbreviations that are commonly used in the Old School RuneScape community. It is incomplete, and may never be complete as Old School RuneScape's community and vocabulary is constantly changing.

This slang dictionary only lists Old School RuneScape-specific terms.

#

Abbreviation	Meaning
"$11"	The current monthly rate for membership in USD; often jokingly used on social media in minor complaints about the game implying that one is not getting their money's worth, many times accompanied by crab emojis (🦀).
2h	Two-handed sword
2+1	A method of boosting loot potential at Chambers of Xeric where 2 players will complete the raid and 1 alternate account will not participate in the fighting, but simply be in the room to boost the amount of reward points the other players can receive. This abbreviation can be used to describe any ratio of accounts used. Also known as "scaling" a raid. Alternatively, may be used for describing the number of accounts in boosting other bosses.
2:1	A method used in high-level PvM combat where the player will damage to a boss 2 times while only allowing the boss to hit them 1 time in order to minimize the potential damage the boss can deal during a fight. This abbreviation can be used to describe any ratio of damage dealt by the player and the boss. These methods are usually performed by taking advantage of pathfinding mechanics to synchronize their attack speeds, such as walking under the boss for 1 or 2 game ticks so the player is temporarily out of its attack range.
200m	200 million experience
200m all	Obtaining 200 million experience in all skills
2147m	2,147,483,647 is the maximum number of items that can be in one item stack, whether they are bank notes or stackable items. In the context of coins, this is known as "max cash". This limit is set because RuneScape uses 32-bit signed integers to store values, which are unable to represent a higher number.
2S2G	2 sandstone, 2 granite; a Mining training method
2t, 3t, 4t, 5t	X-tick training; a method of training gathering skills involving tick manipulation
3a	Third Age
3t4g	3 tick, 4 granite; a method of training Mining by mining 4 granite rocks while tick manipulating.
99	Maximum level for a skill, Skill mastery.

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A

Abbreviation	Meaning
Abby	Abyssal, Aberrant spectres, Abyssal whip, Abyssal demon
Ac	Anti-crash (usually for bosses or group Wilderness fights)
Acc	Account, Accuracy
Acb	Armadyl crossbow
Acp	Armadyl chestplate
Acs	Armadyl chainskirt
Addy	Adamant
Ads	Anti-dragon shield, Abyssal dagger (p++)
AFK(ing)	Away from keyboard—an account training while the person has gone away from the keyboard.
Aggro	Aggressiveness (referring to a monster's behaviour around players)
Ags	Armadyl godsword
Air(s)	Air rune
Alch(ing)	Using an alchemy spell to convert items into gold using either Low or High Level Alchemy.
Alt	Alternative account, generally the second account.
Ammy	Amulet
Ancients	Ancient Magicks
Anti	Antipoison, Anti-dragon shield or Antifire
AntiD, Anti D shield	Anti-dragon shield
AntiP, Ap, SuperAP	Antipoison, Super antipoison potions
AoE	Area of Effect—referring to attacks that affect multiple targets at once.
AoTD	Amulet of the damned
Arc	Arcane spirit shield, Arceuus (house or spellbook)
Ardy	Ardougne
Arma	Armadyl
Atk, Att	Attack, Attacker role in Barbarian Assault
Autoer, autoing	A bot user/using a bot
Auto, AA	Auto Retaliate
Ava's	Ava's attractor, accumulator, or assembler
Avs, Avies, Avys	Aviansie

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B

Abbreviation	Meaning
B, bil	Billion, e.g. 1b = 1,000,000,000 coins.
B2B, BTB	Bones to Bananas, Back to back
B2P, BTP	Bones to Peaches
BA	Barbarian Assault
Bank made	An exclamation, usually sarcastic, about the value of a drop or other benefit. Particularly used of drops (such as dragon boots) which used to be extremely valuable and are now merely "nice".
Bankstanding	AFKing or socialising with other players in a populated area such as a bank or the Grand Exchange.
Barb	Barbarian, Barb-tail harpoon, Barbarian Village
Barrage	Ice Barrage or any other Barrage spell in the Ancient Magicks spellbook.
Baxe	Battleaxe
Barb Village, Barb Vil	Barbarian Village
Bbones	Big bones
Bcp	Bandos chestplate
BF	Blast Furnace
B gloves	Barrows gloves from Recipe for Disaster
Bgs	Bandos godsword
BiS	Best-in-slot
BK	Bot kill(ing) (Player killing bots in the Wilderness)
Blitz	Ice Blitz or any other Blitz spell in the Ancient Magicks spellbook.
Box	Fighting rules at Duel Arena, when no equipment is used. Or purposely being attacked by a friend or monster whilst in single combat in order to avoid being killed by a PKer.
Bp	Toxic blowpipe
Brace	Bracelet
Brew(s)	Typically Saradomin brews or, rarely, Zamorak brews. Can also refer to the act of drinking a brew.
Brid	A player who fights with more than one point on the Combat Triangle. See hybridding.
Broads	Broad-tipped bolts (Ranged ammunition)
BS, BSer	Bow strings, bank sale, back stabber (usually used in Wildy)
BSS	Blessed spirit shield
B sale, Bsale	Bank sale (used when players have lots of stuff to sell)
Bsk, Bskr, Zerk(er), Berz	Berserker
Btw	By the way. Also used as a joke to refer to Ironmen, example: "I'm a btw, btw" meaning "I'm an ironman, btw."

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C

Abbreviation	Meaning
Cammy, Cam	Camelot
Cannon, Cann	Dwarf multicannon
Cath, Cathy	Catherby
Cb, Cb lvl, Cbt, Cmb, Cmbt, Combat	Combat (level)
Cball	Cannonball
Cbow	Crystal bow, Crossbow, Craw's bow
CC	Clan Chat
Chanced	Receiving an attack from a boss or player when the attacker's max hit is above their target's current hitpoints, but the target does not die from the attack; leaving survival up to chance.
Chofl	A haughty way of expressing contempt towards another player. Variant of "Rofl"
Chins, chinning	Chinchompas, or the act of hunting/using chinchompas.
Choob	A high-level player who acts like a noob.
Clue, Clueing	Clue scroll, attempting to get a clue scroll or doing Treasure Trails.
CMS, Challenge Mode Raid	Extra hard raids
Collat, Collatting	The act of borrowing an item whilst giving items of equal value in return as collateral. Used by players who don't want to sell their items to buy different items.
Con, Cons	Construction
CoX	Chambers of Xeric
Crash	Stealing a person or group's kills at a multicombat boss (like God Wars Dungeon, or Dagannoth Kings). See crashing.
CW, CWA, cwars	Castle Wars, Clan Wars, change worlds (CW)

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D

Abbreviation	Meaning
D/Drag (weapon/armour name)	Dragons, Dragon equipment
Da, Duel	Duel Arena, Ring of dueling
Dag, Dagg	Dagannoth, dagger
Dbones, D bones	Dragon bones
DC, Dced, Dc'd	Disconnected
Dchain	Dragon chainbody
Dclaws	Dragon claws
DD	Dragon dagger, death dot (see below), dragon defender (more commonly known as ddef)
DDP	Dragon dagger poisoned
DDP+	Dragon dagger extra poisoned—sometimes mistakenly used instead of DDP++.
DDP++, DDS	Dragon dagger (p++)
Death dot, DD	A multicombat player killing tactic where a number of players stand on the same square, making them appear as one player on the minimap.
Def	Defence, Defender
Def tank, Defence tank	Player with a Defence level of upwards of 90 or higher. Usually a player who is not pure and has Defence as one of their highest combat skills. See tanking.
Dfs	Dragonfire shield. Sometimes erroneously used for Anti-dragon shield.
Dh	Dharok's
Dh axe	Dharok's greataxe
Dhide, D hide, D'hide	Dragonhide
Dharok'ing, Dh'ing	Getting one's Hitpoints as low as possible while in full Dharok's to maximise damage inflicted in battle. Often accompanied with protection prayers.
DK, DKs	Dagannoth Kings
DM	Deathmatch
Dmed	Dragon med helm
Dmg	Damage
DMM	Deadman Mode
Dolo	A method of boosting xp/hr or boss kills/hr by playing two accounts at once.
Dp	Drop party, drop potential, death potential, door partner (to get past the doors in the Waterbirth Island Dungeon), Death Plateau
DPS	Damage per Second (amount of damage dealt over time)
DS	Dragon spear, Double shot (mainly used in reference to the dark bow and magic shortbow), dragon scimitar
DS1, DS2	Dragon Slayer I and Dragon Slayer II respectively
DT	Desert Treasure
Dusts	Dust devils
DWH	Dragon warhammer

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E

Abbreviation	Meaning
Ecto	Ectofuntus, Ectophial
Edge	Edgeville
EHP	Efficient hours played: a measure of how many hours an account has spent gaining experience, assuming only the most efficient methods were used. For example, if the most efficient method of gaining experience in a certain skill grants 100,000 experience per hour, each time a player gains 100,000 experience in that skill, they have played 1 EHP (regardless of how many real hours it took them to get that amount of experience).
Ele	Chaos Elemental
Ely	Elysian spirit shield
Ess, essence	Rune or pure essence (for variants with P).
Etc., etce	Etceteria
EOC, EoC	Referring to Evolution of Combat or RuneScape 3

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F

Abbreviation	Meaning
F2P, F2Pers, Ftp	Non-members (Free-to-play)
Fally	Falador
Farcaster	Someone who casts a "hold" spell and doesn't go face-to-face with another player (often used with Ancient Magicks' freeze spells).
Fashionscape	A term jokingly used to describe RuneScape as a dress up game or in reference to worn outfits.
FC, FCC	Friends chat channel
FFA	Free for all. Person who deals the most damage gets the drop.
Flip(ing)	A term that refers to buying an item and then, within a short period of time, selling it for a profit.
FM	Firemaking, Farming, Forum moderator
FMod	Forum moderator
Fremmy, Frem	Fremennik
Froob	Free-to-play noob
Full	Complete set that usually consists of a helm, shield, body piece and leg piece (such as full rune armour), or inventory being full (e.g. picking flax).
Funning	Duelling for fun (possible rules and no stake).

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G

Abbreviation	Meaning
G (weapon/armour name)	Granite (e.g. gmaul) or Guthan the Infested's equipment (e.g. g spear)
GB	God book
GD	Green dragon or Greater demon
GE	Grand Exchange
GF	Good fight (when used in PvP).
GG	General Graardor. Good game.
GH	Green Hill (Wilderness, popular player killing spot)
Gl	Good luck
Glory	Amulet of glory
Gmaul	Granite maul
GP	Gold pieces (i.e. coins), the primary currency used in Old School RuneScape.
Gold sink	An activity that removes a significant amount of an item (that holds a monetary value) or currency from the game. For example, training Prayer through the usage of a gilded altar is considered a gold sink.
Grats, Gz	Congratulations
Green cash stack	A stack of 10 million or more coins (referring to the fact that the number on a stack of 10 million or more items is displayed in green)
GS	Godsword
Guth, Gth	Guthix or Guthan's
GWD, GW	God Wars Dungeon

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H

Abbreviation	Meaning
Hally	Halberd
HB	Heavy ballista
HC, HCIM	Hardcore Ironman
Hells, HH	Hellhounds
Herb	Herblore
Hilt	Godsword hilt
Hills	Hill giants
Hop	To change worlds. See world switching.
HP	Hitpoints—could be used to refer to a player's Hitpoints level.
HPK	Honour PKing
HT	Home teleport
Hybrid	A player who fights with more than one point on the Combat Triangle. See hybridding.

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I

Abbreviation	Meaning
Ignore	Ignore list
IM, Iron	Ironman
Inv, Invent	Inventory

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J

Abbreviation	Meaning
Jad	TzTok-Jad, Tzrek-jad, JalTok-Jad; the Zulrah phase which requires prayer switches in a similar manner to the aforementioned bosses.
JMod	Jagex moderator
Jordans	Primordial boots

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K

Abbreviation	Meaning
K	Thousand, e.g. 1k = 1,000 coins, Karil's
K0, KO	Knock-out, instant kill
KBD	King Black Dragon
KC	Kill count
KCB	Karil's crossbow
Kelda, Keld	Keldagrim
KG	Unit of Weight
Kite	Kiteshield
KQ	Kalphite Queen

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L

Abbreviation	Meaning
Law(s)	Law rune
Leech	Someone who does nothing in a team-work based activity. Many look down upon these people because of the fact that they earn rewards without helping.
Legs	Platelegs
Lesser	Lesser demon
LF	Looking For:
Life	Ring of life
LMS	Last Man Standing — a player-versus-player battle royale style minigame.
Lob, Lobs	Lobster
Long	Longsword, longbow
Looter	One that gathers on the spot of a kill in hopes they can get something valuable.
Lumb, Lumby	Lumbridge

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M

Abbreviation	Meaning
M, Mil	Million (e.g. 6M = 6,000,000)
Mage, Mager	Referring to the Magic skill, a player who uses Magic more than Ranged or Melee; an NPC wizard; a player with 99 Magic; a player currently using Magic for combat.
Mage tank	Player with high Magic and Defence.
Main	A player's main character; in the context of PVP, an account with no restrictions imposed on its combat stats.
MB	Mage bank (the Mage Arena in Deep Wilderness), Mage box (used in duelling), or "my bad" meaning sorry
Maul	Granite maul, Obsidian maul
Mauler	Player who uses a Granite maul, or Obsidian maul as their weapon.
Max, Maxed, Maxing	To reach level 99 in all skills ("I maxed yesterday"); to deal the maximum amount of damage in one hit ("my max is 32 with this gear"); a player with a combat level of 126 (often referred to as "maxed cb" or "max melee").
MD	Melee distance
Med (helm)	A regular helm, after the old name, medium helmet.
Med level	Short for "medium level" (content, gear, mobs, etc); in context of PVP, an account with between 50-75 attack and/or defence.
Mem, Memb, P2P	Member
Mep1, Mep2	Mourning's End Part I and Mourning's End Part II
Merching, Merch, Merchanting	Usually means the buying of an item then selling that same item later on in order to make a profit.
Meta	"Most Effective Tactic Available" or the dominant strategy, referring to the best or most popular method used in a scenario such as Skill training, Bossing, etc.
Mith	Mithril
Mlm	Motherlode Mine
MM1, MM2	Monkey Madness I and Monkey Madness II
Money snake/Money dragon	Terms for Zulrah and Vorkath, respectively; refers to their status as consistent moneymaking methods.
MSB	Magic shortbow
Mta	Mage Training Arena, north of the Duel Arena

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N

Abbreviation	Meaning
Nat	Nature rune
Nech	Nechryael
Nezzy, Nez, Neit	Neitiznot
NH	No Honour—a player who wins by any means necessary in PvP.
NMZ	Nightmare Zone
No arm(ing)	Fighting without armour
Noob	New player, derived from newbie

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O

Abbreviation	Meaning
Obby	Obsidian, as in TzHaar items; the Wilderness Obelisk; a type of pure with low Attack and high Strength (Obby pure).
One-iteming (1-iteming)	Using a single item (usually weapon) to minimise risk when player-killing.
Ooo	Orb of oculus
Ovl(s)	Overload potions.

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P

Abbreviation	Meaning
P2P(er)	Members (Pay-to-Play)
Pass, pw	Password (the word password is censored in-game), Shantay Pass, Underground Pass
PB	Personal best, i.e. best completion time of a boss.
PC	Pest Control, Private chat, Price check
Pegs	Pegasian boots
Ph, Phat	Partyhat
Phas	Port Phasmatys
Pile, Piling	Multiple people attacking the same opponent.
Pick	Pickaxe
PJ, PJer, PJing	Pile jumping. The act of interrupting a player vs player fight by attacking one or both of the players, or attacking the winner of a fight, aiming to get the loot pile.
PK, PKer, PKing	Player killer/Player killing. Someone who is fighting other players - specifically in the Wilderness or other high risk PvP areas.
Plate	Platebody
PM	Private message
PMod	Player Moderator
Poacher	Someone who steals PvM kills, or hoards one NPC to themselves.
POH	Player-owned houses
Pot, Pots	Potion, Lobster pot. Can also be used to inform other players in a group to drink their potions ("pot up"). There is also an item named pot.
Potter	Someone who uses potions to fight.
PPot, Pray Pot	Prayer potion
PP	Pyramid Plunder, Pickpocketing, Prayer points.
Prepot(ing)	Drinking potions at bank before taking supplies and going to a boss fight or slayer task in order to gain their bonus while saving inventory space.
Price Check (PC)	Term used to find the price of the item.
Prims	Primordial boots
Prod	Someone that relies on a certain weapon or special attack when Pking/PvPing to defeat their opponent. For example, "AGS prod".
Prossy	Proselyte armour
Pure	Someone who trains only one type of skill; someone who only trains combat skills, or only non-combat skills. See Combat pure, Defence pure, or Skill pure.
Pure set	Super Attack and Strength, but no Super Defence. Also refers to a dragonhide armour set minus the body.

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Q

Abbreviation	Meaning
QP/QPS	Quest points, Quick prayers
QC, QPC	Quest point cape
QS	Quick Start, phrase used before Barbarian Assault waves to start before the 60 second wait.

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R

Abbreviation	Meaning
R2H	Rune two-handed sword
Rags, Ragging, Raggers	Term often used in PKing as someone with inferior or cheap gear.
Rambo, Rambo spec, Rambo special	Term often used in pking for a high-hitting special attack, or a combination of regular hits that surprises the opponent. A word derived from John Rambo, a muscular hard lined character from the movie, First Blood.
Range Tank	Player who focuses mainly on Ranged and Defence.
Rangers, Rngrs	Ranger boots
RC(ing)	Runecraft
RC Pker	Runecrafter player killer. Someone who killed a runecrafter on their way to the Abyss runecraft area.
RCB	Rune crossbow
RDT, GDT	Rare drop table, Gem Drop Table
Recoil	Ring of recoil
Red barred	Term used to describe a monster/person with so little Hitpoints that its health bar is almost completely red. For much of RuneScape 2, monsters with large amounts of hit points could display a solid red health bar when they only had a few health points. This was what lead to the phrase being coined.
Req(s)	Requirement(s)
Rev(s)	Revenants
Rex	Dagannoth Rex
RFD	Recipe for Disaster
Rimmy	Rimmington
RMH, RFH	Rune helm, Rune full helm
RNG	random number generator
Robin	Robin Hood hat
RoL	Ring of life
RoS	Ring of suffering
RoW	Ring of wealth
RS	RuneScape
RS2	RuneScape 2
RS3	The current main branch of RuneScape, RuneScape 3.
RSC/RS1	RuneScape Classic
RSHD	RuneScape HD
RSOF	RuneScape Official Forums
Rush, Rusher	PKing tactic, in which a player is attacked directly after finishing a fight by someone using a high-powered spec weapon (eg. Dragon claws, Armadyl godsword). See rushing.
RWT	Real world trading

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S

Abbreviation	Meaning
SC	Skill capes
Scb	Super combat potion
SOTD	Staff of the dead
SotE	Song of the Elves
SSC	Stronghold Slayer Cave
Safer	Someone who heals at a life points value that is greater than the maximum hit of the opponent or in some cases eating to full Hitpoints. Typically used in the context of one-on-one PvP. Although, some use it in multi-way combat incorrectly.
Sand casino	Duel Arena, particularly when used for staking wealth
Santa	Santa hat
Sara	Saradomin
Scimmy, Scim	Scimitar
Seers	Seers' Village
SGS	Saradomin godsword
Shilo	Shilo Village
Short	Shortsword, Shortbow
Skirt	Plateskirt
Skiller	Someone who trains non-combat skills (can be any Combat level)/more commonly someone who trains non-combat skills primarily or exclusively. See Skill pure.
Snipe	To target and gain a desirable item by outbidding or beating another player to it. See Sniping.
SOS, Stronghold	Stronghold of Security
Spec	Special attack, Spectral spirit shield
Spoonfed	A player who consistently gets rare drops (such as pets) with relatively little time/effort expended.
Sq	Square shield
Str	Strength
SS	Saradomin sword
Super sets (Sup att/atk, Sup def, Sup str)	Super attack potion, Super defence potion, Super strength potion
Sword	Swordfish, Sword, or Longsword

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T

Abbreviation	Meaning
Tab	A teleport tablet
Tag	Attacking a monster first.
Tali	Talisman
Tassets	Bandos tassets
Tb, Tb'd	Tele Block, reference to someone getting teleport blocked, mainly used during PKing. Also: Trouble Brewing
TB, TBL, TBZ	Trailblazer League
TBow	Twisted bow
Tent	Abyssal tentacle or Kraken tentacle
Tears	Tears of Guthix
TL	Twisted League
ToB	Theatre of Blood
Total	Total level or total experience
Torso	Fighter torso
TP, Tele	Teleport
TT	Treasure Trails

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U

Abbreviation	Meaning
(u)	Unstrung, unenchanted, uncharged, etc.
(unf)	Unfinished

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V

Abbreviation	Meaning
Vambs	Vambraces
Varr	Varrock
Veng	Vengeance or Vengeance Other
Ver, V (Armour)	Verac the Defiled's equipment, i.e. V Brassy
Vis(sy), Visage	Draconic Visage

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W

Abbreviation	Meaning
War	Warhammer
WC(ing), WC	Woodcutting, wrong chat
Wealth	Ring of wealth
Welfare	Using cheap gear with minimal to no risk, usually in a PVP scenario.
WGWD	Wilderness God Wars Dungeon
Whip	Abyssal whip
Wildy	Wilderness
W#	World #, where # is the world in question. e.g. "W60"

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X

Abbreviation	Meaning
X-bow, cbow	Crossbow (weapon)
XP/H, XPH	Experience per hour

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Y

Abbreviation	Meaning
Yan	Yanille

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Z

Abbreviation	Meaning
Zammy	Zamorak
Z Book or Zammy Book	Unholy book
Zerk, Zerker(s)	Berserker
Zgs	Zamorak godsword
Zily, Zilya, Sara Boss, Saradomin Boss	Commander Zilyana
Z spear, Zammy Spear, ZS	Zamorakian spear
Zuk	TzKal-Zuk

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