Meanings
- humorousslangvideo gamesThe massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.
World of Warcrack — er, Warcraft
2007, Hugh Hancock, Johnnie Ingram, “Massively Multiplayer Machinima: World of Warcraft”, in Machinima For Dummies®, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, part III (Advanced Machinima Creation), page 1905 more examples
Noah Tsutsul world of warcrack addict
2005 March, “Staff Rants”, in MacAddict, volume 10, number 3 / 103, Brisbane, Calif.: Future Network USA, →ISSN, page 08The first thing I did was install a few games, including Call Of Duty 2, Far Cry, F.E.A.R., rFactor, and World Of Warcrack (don’t ask).
2006 September, Rahul Sood, “Wagging The Dog: Intel Will Change The Way It Does Business”, in Computer Power User, volume 6, number 09, Lincoln, Neb.: Sandhills Publishing, →ISSN, page 99, column 2As with EverQuest before it, concerned citizens around the nation have attempted to liken its addictive gameplay to substance abuse. As usual, these dire warnings serve only as free publicity, vaulting “World of Warcrack” to even greater fame.
2008, Matt Barton, “The Modern Age”, in Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games, Wellesley, Mass.: A K Peters, Ltd., →ISBN, page 419In other circumstances, the overweening success of a single game would prove frustrating to its competitors: other developers trying to get their products in the hands of receptive audiences. Except in this case, most of those developers are themselves addicted to what some call the “World of Warcrack.”
2009 December 2–8, Ben Richardson, “No escape from Azeroth”, in The San Francisco Bay Guardian, volume 44, number 9, San Francisco, Calif., →ISSN, page 23, columns 1–2“And it’s a crack addiction.” Everybody stared. “World of Warcrack, that is,” Chip said, and smiled. / “Wait,” Tracy said. “They locked you up for a video game addiction?”
2013, Trish Cook, Brendan Halpin, A Really Awesome Mess, New York, N.Y.: Egmont USA, →ISBN, page 124Synonyms: Warcrack
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounThe massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.
Origin
Blend of World of Warcraft + crack, an allusion to the addictiveness of crack cocaine.
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