Zerg

Quick meaning: Zerg is a verb meaning (slang, video games, dated) A very large group of units or players.

Meaning

(slang, video games, dated) A very large group of units or players.

More Meanings

1. (slang, video games, strategy games, dated) To attack an opponent with a large swarm of low-level units before they have been able to build sufficient defences.

Example Sentences

No one ever did D (or just 3-4 people tried), we just zerged, and we would lose every single AV.

The scale and lack of focused content doesn't facilitate this grouping as well as some other games. The good side of that is you don't get the "wonderful" experience of zerging around DF with everyone else waiting for something to spawn.

You can't win with small, balanced groups. You have to zerg the mob with a high number of players. They don't have to zerg lower tier encounters just like the lowest tier guilds doesn't have to zerg orc camp 1 in EC. But, at the top end, it's still zerg tactics.

Word Forms

• zergs
• zerging
• zerged

Synonyms for zerg

Depending on context, synonyms include cheese, rush, blob.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rush, aggro, locust, cheese, swarm, verse.

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