Below is a CS:GO dictionary of the most commonly used terms and the meanings of

these phrases in Counter-Strike Global Offensive. You can add more in comments
section.
A:
- Ace: When the entire enemy team gets killed by one player.
- ADADAD'ing: Zig-zagging by continuously spamming the A (walk left) and D (walk
right) button to make it more difficult for opponents to hit you.
- ADR: Average damage per round.
- ADS: Aiming Down Sights. This means looking through the scope of a weapon.
- AFK: Away from keyboard. When a player doesn't move because he moved away from
his PC for a while.
- Aimbot: A type of hack which makes the user automatically aim at enemies (usually
the head).
- Aimpunch: The knockback from getting hit by a bullet. Especially noticeable when
not wearing kevlar.
- Anchor:
(1.) The last CT to stay on the bombsite when his teammate(s) rotate(s).
(2.) A bad player whose bad performance pulls his team down, like a literal anchor.
- Anti-eco: A round in which a team plays against a team that is on eco.
- Anti-strat: Strategy designed specifically to counter a strategy used by the
opponent.
- Autoshotty: Nickname for the automatic XM1014 shotgun.
- Autosniper: Other name for both the G3SG1 and the Scar-20.
B:
-Ban : There are 6 different type of bans in Counter-Strike Global Offensive. Here
they are listed by their common name.
(1) VAC bans: These are handed out for cheating and are permanent and non-
negotiable
(2) Overwatch bans:
(a).Minorly disruptive (griefing): Around 30 days/1 month.
(b) Majorly disruptive (cheating -aim/wall/other external hacks): Permanent.
(3) Account untrusted bans - These bans are permanent, 100% correct and won't be
lifted. They will change into VAC ban over time.
(4) Competitive matchmaking bans Competitive matchmaking cooldowns are handed out
for leaving matches and not reconnecting in time (within 3 minutes). ie Player
abandons, AFKing, excessive kicking and suiciding and teamkilling result in an
undesirable experience for all of the other players in the game.
(5) Skill placement competitive cooldowns As a new player, with less than 10
competitive wins, you will be limited to a certain amount of competitive games per
day
6) Trade or Community Ban You also may be unable to trade or use the market if your
account has been banned from trading by Steam Support. Depending on the severity of
the violation, you may receive a temporary or permanent trade ban.
- Bait:
(1.) Playing T-side aggressively near an area that contains CT's, in an effort to
make them throw their nades early on. This makes sure that during the actual push,
the CT's won't be able to defend themselves as effectively.
(2.) (Accidentally) making enemies move towards your teammate's location, thus
putting the teammate(s) in danger.
(3.) Exposing yourself to lure an enemy out of cover, so that a teammate can take
him down.
- Boosting:
(1.) Getting to otherwise inaccessible areas by jumping on top of another player's
head.
(2.) Queueing with lower-ranked players and thereby "boosting" their rank.
- Buffed: When a weapon gets buffed, it means that it is made more powerful so that
it'll be used more often by players.
- Bunny hopping: Strafe jumping repeatedly instead of running in order to move
quicker.
- Burst-fire: firing in bursts of approximately 3 shots (can be 4 or 5) to improve
accuracy, instead of shooting continuously.
C:
- Callouts: Locations on a map.
- Camping: Staying in the same spot for a long time, waiting for a player that you
can kill.
- Care: Short for take care. ‘Take care enemies at long’ would become ‘care long’.
- Carrying: Playing much better than the rest of your team.
- Choking: Giving away a big lead.
- Clutch: Term used to define the situation in which a player wins the round after
being the last man standing for their team.
- Collateral: Killing two or more enemies with one bullet.
- Comp: Abbreviation for ''competitive'', the most-played game mode in the game.
- Cooldown: Period in which you're banned from playing competitive. This can be due
to leaving a match, getting votekicked too often, or doing too much teamdamage.
- Console: Short for Developers Console.
- Crabwalking: Moving while crouching.
- Crossfire (setup): Positioning between two or more teammates which makes sure
that enemies who enter the area will be attacked from multiple angles.
- Crouch jump: Jumping while crouching at the same time, in order to jump higher.
- CVAR: Console variable; a text-based command used within a game or engine.
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D:
- Dak dak: Another name for the autosnipers, G3SG1 and Scar-20
- Deagle: Abbreviation for the Desert Eagle, a pistol in the game.
- Dink: A headshot that is survived by the hit player.
- Double kill: Killing 2 enemies in rapid succession.
- Dropping (a weapon): To give a weapon to a teammate, who cannot afford one.
- Dry: Without any nades (e.g. dry peek, meaning a peek without a flash or anything
else to support it)
- Dual Elites/Dualies: Other name for ''Dual Berettas".
E:
- Eco: Only using pistols for one round to save up money. A round in which no money
is spent at all by either side, is sometimes called a "full eco".
- Economic damage: Kills that won't win you the round, but will at least do some
damage to the opponent's economy.
- Elo: Despite the fact that the CS:GO rating system is merely a variant of the
"Elo" system, it is often referred to as Elo nonetheless.
- Entryfrag: The first kill as a team takes control of a specific portion of the
map previously held by the enemy, usually a bomb site.
- Execute: A strategy made for taking over a bombsite, usually with the help of
coordinated nades.
- Exit frags: Kills you get while saving, to do some economic damage.
- ez (pz): Easy (peasy).
F:
- Fake:
(1.) On the Terrorist side, letting 1 or more people make a lot of noise at one
bombsite, to make CT's rotate to that bombsite and leaving 1 bombsite mostly open.
(2.) (Plant): To start planting the bomb so that the enemy can hear the planting
beep, but immediately stopping and switching to your weapon to defend or attack the
enemy.
(3.) (Defuse): (3.) (defuse) - To start defusing the bomb so that the enemy can
hear the defusing sound, but immediately stopping and switching to your weapon to
attack the enemy.
- Flanking: Getting behind enemy lines to attack them in the back.
- Frag: other word for ''kill''.
- Flick(shot): Quickly moving your crosshair to a different position than it was in
before, because an enemy appeared elsewhere.
- Forcebuy: Buying out even though the team cannot afford a full buy with utility.
- Framerate: The amount of frames (images) per second. If you have a high
framerate, animations run smoothly.
G:
- Gay gun: Derogatory term for the automatic sniper rifles (G3SG1 and Scar-20).
- gh: Good half.
- gl: Good luck.
- glhf: Good luck, have fun. Often said when a match starts in competitive play.
- gg: Good game.
- gg wp: Good game, well played. Often said after a match has ended. Or just gg for
short.
- gj: Good job. Often said after a won round.
- Gooshed: Being shot in the head without wearing head armor.
- Glass cannon: AWP without armor.
- Griefer: Player who deliberately irritates and angers other players within the
game, using aspects of the game in unintended ways. ie like AFK or throwing the
game (see throwing)
H:
- Hand cannon: Desert Eagle.
- Hax: Hacking or cheating in some way
- Headglitching: Peeking in such a way that only your head is visible to opponents.
- Headshot: Shooting a player in the head. Usually results in a one-hit kill.
- hf: Have fun.
- HP: Health points. It's the amount of health a player has left.
I:
- IGL: In-game leader: The person who calls the strats on a team.
J:
- Juan Deag: See "One deag".
- Jumpshot: Shooting and jumping at the same time.
- Jumpthrow: A grenade throw while jumping.
K:
- K/D: abbreviation of ''kill/death ratio'', which is your amount of kills divided
by your amount of deaths.
- Kill Assist: If you wound a player for more than 40HP and a teammate subsequently
kills him you get a kill assist resulting in 1 point towards your score and an
assist is displayed on the scoreboard.
- Killsteal: When you were about to kill someone, but another player is quicker and
gets the kill.
- Knife fight: When 2 or more players agree upon not using guns or grenades, but
only using the knife to kill eachother. Often done in a 1v1 situation.
- Kobe: A kill with an HE grenade.
- Krieg: Other name for the SG 553.
- Kur wa: Polish insult, also used by non-Polish players.
- KQLY (style): Getting a kill using a jumpshot. Named after French player KQLY,
who famously got such a kill with his USP-S once.
L:
- Lag: Having a delay on your actions due to a bad internet connection/server.
- L2P: Learn to Play
- Lit: Being damaged considerably.
- Legged: Being shot in the leg by an AWP.
- Long Jumping: A special trickjump technique which involves making small left-
right movements in mid-air. It allows the player to jump farther distances.
- Lurker: A role that involves picking off enemy rotators. Mostly plays as a 'lone
wolf.'
M:
- Marketplace: Steam contained community area where users can buy and sell items.
- MM: Matchmaking, the system used to create matches.
- Molly: Other name for the molotov.
N:
- N1: Nice one.
- NA: Literally means "North America(n)", but is often used as a prefix to describe
a misplay (due to the infamously lacklustre performance by North American CS:GO
teams at big tournaments). An example of this would be "NA flash", meaning, a badly
thrown flashbang.
- Nade: Despite there being several types of grenades in the game, ‘nade’ would be
used to refer to the HE (High Explosive) Grenade.
- Nerfed: when a weapon is nerfed, it means that the creator of the game (Valve in
this case) weakens a weapon that used to be too powerful.
- Ninja defuse: Defusing a bomb while the enemy team is unaware of it, not killing
anyone.
- No-scope: Shooting with a sniper while not looking through the scope.
- Noob/newb/newbie: Probably the most popular insult in online gaming. Someone who
is new to the game and isn't good at it is a ''Noob''.
- Ns: Nice shot.
- Nt: Nice try.
O:
- One deag: A one shot headshot kill with the Desert Eagle.
- One-tap: A one shot headshot kill.
- One-way smoke: A smoke that can only be seen through from one angle.
- OP: Overpowered, ie that a weapon is too powerful.
- OT: Overtime.
P:
- Peek: Exposing yourself to view an area of the map and gather information.
- Pick: Opening kill on an opponent.
- Ping: The amount of milliseconds it takes for your client to get a response from
the server. Often related to lag (high ping = very laggy, low ping = not laggy),
though this is not necessarily the case.
- Pistol round: The first round of each half. In these rounds, no player has enough
money to buy a weapon other than a pistol, which clarifies the name.
- Pop-flash: Flashbang that ''explodes'' (pops) before the enemy can look away.
- Pre-aiming: A skill whereby a player positions their crosshairs before peeking,
to be on a certain position while peeking, without having to further adjust their
crosshairs.
- Prefiring: Shooting a spot preemptively, so that you get a kill in case the enemy
is actually there
- PUG: Pick-up game.
- Pushing: Making an offensive move (offensive as in attacking), individually or as
a team.
Q:
- Quad kill: Killing 4 enemies in rapid succession.
- Quasi-buy: A sort of forcebuy that will allow the team to still buy the next
round.
- Quickscope: Shooting immediately after scoping in when using a sniper rifle.
R:
- Recoil Pattern: The pattern the bullets from a weapon creates when shooting full-
auto. Also called a Spray Pattern.
- Recoil Control: The movement you need to make with your mouse while firing a gun
to to counteract the recoil pattern in order to remain hitting a target.
- Reset: Winning a round against a team that has just won a round themselves,
thereby resetting their loss bonus back to $1400.
- Retake: Taking back a site that you’ve lost, either defending as CT or defending
a bomb plant as T.
- Runboost: A type of boost that involves the players involved to run, with the one
on top jumping off after having reached a high speed. This allows the boosted
player to jump a much further distance than usual.
- Rushing: playing very aggressive and quick, instead of playing sneaky or
strategic.
- Rotate: Change plans and move to another area of the map. For example, if the
original plan was to go B but it appears to not be working out, you can ''rotate''
to bombsite A.
S:
- Saving: Not trying to win a difficult situation such as a 1v4, and instead hiding
somewhere to survive and keep your weapon.
- Scout: Other word for the SSG 08 sniper rifle.
- Scrim: A practice match of competitive between two teams.
- Shoulder-peeking: Quickly exposing your shoulder to an awper to lure him into
firing a shot.
- Silvers: Silvers is used in competitive play to infer a player is lowskilled.
This references the CS:GO ranking structure where Silver 1 – Silver Elite Master is
the lowest skill bracket achievable. It’s the competitive equivalent to calling a
player noob.
- Smurfing: Making a second account with a lower rank/deranking, usually in order
to play against lower-ranked players and win more easily.
- Spamming: Shooting through an object.
- Split: A site attack from multiple ingress points.
- Spray pattern: The way in which the weapon backfires when shooting full-auto.
with most weapons, this is: Far up, slightly left, right, left.
- Stacking: Sending more players to an area of the map than you normally would.
- Strafe Jump: A special jumping technique that allows the player to jump slightly
further than usual. It is used to reach special locations, that cannot be accessed
without a boost otherwise.
- Strat: Strategy.
- Steps: Short for Footsteps. ‘I can hear footsteps at short’ would become ‘steps
short’.
- Support: This player plays a more passive role than the rest of the team. A good
support player is patient, calm and has good knowledge of nades.
- Swag-7: Nickname for the Mag-7 shotgun.
T:
- Tagged: Having taken/done a relatively small amount of damage.
- Throwing: Losing a match on purpose, sometimes for match-fixing reasons.
- (Being on) Tilt: Playing badly due to anger and/or frustration.
- Tk: Teamkill (Killing a teammate).
- Toggle: Short for toggling something on and off. Typically made in reference to
someone toggling on and off cheats of some kind and often as a joke if they’ve
played badly then well all of a sudden.
- Toxic: A player is toxic when they behave like a tool.
- Trade: The event in which both teams get a kill soon after eachother.
- Triggerbot: A hack that makes one's gun fire as soon as its crosshair is on a
player.
U:
- Utility: All sorts of grenades.
V:
- VAC: Valve Anti-Cheat. People will often say ''VAC'' or ''VACation'' when they
suspect someone is cheating.
- Volvo: Used to refer to Valve, the creators of CS:GO.
W:
- Wallbanging: Shooting through penetratable surfaces.
- Wallhack: A type of hack that allows the player to see through walls. Also
referred to as ''wh'' or "walls".
- Whiffing: Missing one or more shots.
- wp: Well played.
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