Deliberately playing badly to lose a match.
Deliberately playing badly to lose a match. The most hated behavior in any ranked ladder — worse than griefing, worse than AFK. "He's throwing" = he's intentionally feeding kills. A reportable offense in every competitive game.
"He's throwing. He picked Yasuno in ARAM and keeps walking into tower."
Throwing in gaming means deliberately losing or playing badly. "Are you throwing?" accuses someone of intentionally losing. Outside gaming, throwing also refers to vomiting ("throwing up"). Not concerning unless your teen actually throws matches competitively, in which case it can risk account bans. If your kid uses it constantly, ask them where they first heard it, not to police their speech but to understand which online community they are in.
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Gaming slang across genres — from OP, nerf, and buff to carry, clutch, jungle, and wombo combo. The lingo of esports, streamers, and ranked lobbies everywhere.
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Past tense of 'throwing' a match — losing a game you should have won, especially through bad decisions in the final stretch. In Twitch chat, 'you threw' is posted when a streamer is comfortably ahead and then snatches defeat from the jaws of victory. Different from being outplayed: throwing implies the loss was self-inflicted.
Someone who fails so spectacularly and so reliably that they've transcended normal incompetence and achieved an almost mythological status as an agent of self-destruction. The throwing god doesn't just fumble one chance — they fumble every chance, often in increasingly creative and improbable ways that defy statistical likelihood. Originally from esports where intentional or catastrophic in-game throwing became legendary, the throwing god title is now awarded to anyone who turns a guaranteed win into an L through pure chaos energy.
To make someone lose a match by (mostly) intentionally or unintentionally dying
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Throwing in gaming means deliberately losing or playing badly. "Are you throwing?" accuses someone of intentionally losing. Outside gaming, throwing also refers to vomiting ("throwing up"). Not concerning unless your teen actually throws matches competitively, in which case it can risk account bans. If your kid uses it constantly, ask them where they first heard it, not to police their speech but to understand which online community they are in.
Throwing in gaming contexts is a verb meaning to deliberately lose a match, similar to the older English idiom "to throw a fight." Use in casual gaming chat. Formal equivalent: "intentionally losing." Common non-native mistake: confusing with the standard verb "to throw." Context (esports, gaming) makes the meaning clear. The gerund "throwing" is most common as an accusation: "are you throwing?" Read or listen to the word in context several times before trying it yourself; the right register is harder to learn than the dictionary meaning.
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The act by which something is thrown.
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To die repeatedly and catastrophically, feeding kills to the enemy — sometimes from frustration, sometimes on purpose. "He's inting" = he's throwing.