spawn camp

To stay near a spawn point in order to kill players immediately after they spawn.

Verb

To stay near a spawn point in order to kill players immediately after they spawn.
- Some servers will ban you if you spawn camp too much.
- While one team is effectively pinned down by spawn campers, the team that has successfully spawn camped may proceed to complete any other goals of the match unobstructed. - 2011, Galen Foresman, “What's Wrong with...
To kill (players) immediately after they spawn.
- How am I supposed to do anything if I get spawn camped in five seconds?
- Of the turning point, he said, "We each got off our heroes and started playing random heroes. Dafran played Soldier for some reason, I stuck with Tracer, and we just ran to their spawn and then started spawn camping...

From spawn (“a location on a game map in which a player spawns”) + camp (“to stay beside something to gain an advantage”).