RPG

Initialism of Report Program Generator.

Proper noun

  1. Initialism of Report Program Generator.

Origin

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).

Noun

  1. Initialism of roleplaying game.
    • This is an RPG experience DBZ fans must have, but even if you've never seen DBZ, it's still an interesting game due to the unique fighting scenes and the ability to fly around the map. - 1993 April 5, “Dragon Ball Z”,...
    • I love shooters, RPGs, and pretty much anything with free-roam or gore. - 2009, The Official Xbox Magazine - Issues 92-95, page 335:
    • I reckon Runescape^([sic]) is the game that introduced my young, ignorant, and stubborn self to modern RPGs. In a way, I owe at least part of how my career has shaped up to trimmed rune and obby capes. - 2021 January 4,...
  2. Initialism of rocket-propelled grenade.
  3. Initialism of rebound per game.
    • The Nuggets star is averaging 24.9 PPG, 11.9 RPG (rebounds per game) and an agonizing 9.9 APG (assists per game) – demonstrating Jokić’s incredible all-around ability. - 2023 April 5, Thomas Schlacher, “Joel Embiid vs....
  4. Initialism of research postgraduate.

Forms

RPGs

Related

LARP

Derived

RPGer ARPG CRPG JRPG litRPG MMORPG SRPG tactical RPG tactics RPG TRPG TTRPG WRPG

Verb

  1. To play a roleplaying game.
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
  2. 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 5, 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 5, Robert D. Kaplan, Imperial Grunts: […], Vintage Books, page 317:
    • 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:

Forms

RPGs RPG's RPGing RPG'ing RPG-ing RPGed RPG'd RPG'ed