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Grepolis Jargon

  • def unit - A unit most commonly used in defence.
  • off unit - A unit most commonly used in offence.
  • def city - A city with only defensive units.
  • off city - A city with only offensive units.
  • farm vill - A farming village.
  • farm - Another player's city that is undefended and being regularly attacked for free resources.
  • siege - Damage a city with catapults.
  • clear - Kill all troops defending a city.
  • clearing wave - An attack designed to clear a city. Also abbreviated to CW.
  • fake - An attack consisting of a single unit to scare or deceive an enemy.
  • scout - Preform espionage of another city.
  • spy - A player who joins an enemy alliance to secretly gather intelligence.
  • timed attack - Multiple attacks that arrive in close proximity of one another.
  • suicide - Kill your own troops in order to free population.
  • dodge - Temporarily move units out of a city to evade an incoming attack.
  • timed support - Units that arrive during the middle of a timed attack.
  • rim - The edge of the world where new players and refugee players are sent.
  • rimmed - Sending someone to the rim by conquering their last village.
  • PA - Personal alliance, another player you are personally allied to independent of your alliance. Do not confuse with with Premium Account.
  • ally - An alliance you mutually co-operate with.
  • NAP - Non Aggression Pact, an alliance you mutually agree not to attack.
  • enemy - An alliance you are at war with.
  • Grepo - Grepolis. Also abbreviated to GP.
  • res - Resources.
  • PA - Premium Account. Not to be confused with Personal Alliance.
  • PP - Premium Player, an alternative to PA to avoid confusion.
  • mass mail - A mail sent to multiple players, occasionally abbreviated to MM.
  • TW - Tribal Wars. (Germans use in reference to The West.)
  • DS - Die Stamme, the German version of Tribal Wars.
  • West - The West.
  • leaders - The founders and leaders of an alliance.

Internet Jargon

  • k - Thousand. For example 5k is the equivalent of 5,000.
  • mill - Million. For example 5mill is the equivalent of 5,000,000.
  • RL - Real Life.
  • PM - Private Message, a one-to-one message sent to a forum account.
  • IG - Ingame.
  • IGM Ingame Message, a PM sent through Grepolis' messaging system.
  • noob - A derogative term for new players.
  • multi - A person playing more than one account on the same world. This is against the rules.
  • 24/7 - 24 hours, 7 days a week.
  • IE - Internet Explorer.
  • FF - Mozilla Firefox.
  • GC - Google Chrome.
  • *** - Censored word.
  • dnk - Do not know.
  • dnc - Do not care.
  • ty - Thankyou.
  • np - No problem.
  • imo - In my opinion.
  • imho - In my humble opinion.
  • afaik - As far as I know.
  • :) - Happy Face (turn 90 degrees). Other combinations such as :( form sad faces, etc.
  • muahaha - Evil laugh.
  • lol - Laugh out loud.
  • rofl - Rolling on the floor laughing.
  • lmao - Laugh my arse off.
  • k - Ok, also written as kk.
  • wtf - What the ****.
  • nc - No comment.
  • kewl - Cool.
  • OT - Off-topic.
  • ^_^ - Laughing.
  • -_- - Not laughing.
  • B2T - Back to the topic.