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"To zerg" or "a zerg", used to describe with more detail a given scenario, is starting to become quite commonplace around the web, and especially in games. Whether being swarmed by a mass influx of players in a shooter, or being outnumbered by a giant mass of pvp characters in an mmo, it is often used as both a noun and a verb.
Strategy games have obvious taken the brunt of this new meaning, and even now you can find it being used regularly on Total War and other new and popular strategy games to describe a mass or blob of a paticular unit or set of units.
Examples:
As a noun:
(in a shooter; example; describing a large number or enemies moving together)
"I'll keep these guys here pinned with mg42 covering fire, you all move out." "I should be fine unless I spot a zerg or something, I don't have the aummunition for that"
As a verb:
(im an mmo type setting; example; A group of players about to attack a castle)
"What do you mean they have an upgraded castle defense? Who cares? We'll mass recruit from the main chat channels/cities and zerg them"
My question is, if the popularity of the term expands further, and we find it being used outside of gaming, what would be your official definition of it? How would you find it defined in a dictionary?
Mine would be:
To overwhelm with extraordinary numbers.
I'll post the best ones here.
Zerg (Verb): To quickly overwhelm, surround, infiltrate and corrupt.
The enemy zerged the base, taking it as their own, leaving left only burned flags.
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To put a large amount of preassure on something or someone.
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Netherlands45349 Posts
I remember from my WoW days,(if anyone here played it). In the WoW arena, where (especially) with 2 melee characters would basically tunnelvision a single character all game long to kill them, was called zerging.(Just zerg the priest ,for example). Then again, Zerg is also used to describe overwhelming numbers.
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In fact all these terms were derived from the philosophy of the Starcraft 1 race with the same name: lots of swarming units overwhelming the opponent with their pure numbers and strength.
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On March 21 2011 05:17 Kipsate wrote:
I remember from my WoW days,(if anyone here played it).
Lol
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In my mind it will always simply mean overwhelming numbers. Your definition is pretty much the only one I can imagine. Lots of cheap or quick units/people moving towards a single goal. Zerg would be a synonym for swarm, you can swarm a position and you can be part of a swarm. Zerg is just a gaming term meaning the same thing.
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Zerg (Verb): To quickly overwhelm, surround, infiltrate and corrupt.
The enemy zerged the base, taking it as their own, leaving left only burned flags.
That's the best I could come up with, for now anyways.
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On March 21 2011 05:17 Kipsate wrote:
I remember from my WoW days,(if anyone here played it). In the WoW arena, where (especially) with 2 melee characters would basically tunnelvision a single character all game long to kill them, was called zerging.(Just zerg the priest ,for example). Then again, Zerg is also used to describe overwhelming numbers.
that training
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to swarm, surround, and overrun with sheer numbers
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On March 21 2011 05:23 Killykill wrote:
Zerg (Verb): To quickly overwhelm, surround, infiltrate and corrupt.
The enemy zerged the base, taking it as their own, leaving left only burned flags.
That's the best I could come up with, for now anyways.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=zerg
Originates from Blizzard's game Starcraft where zerg were one of 3 playable races, aliens like appeareance, zerg were characterized by using large numbers of weak units to swarm the enemy, also another charasteristic of zerg were that everything was organic, ie, zerg didnt used machines or any artifacts, they would mutate their own buildings from special kind of larvae and advanced units were created by mutating basic ones. Units were cheap to make and it was possible to make extreme numbers in short period of time.
Nowadays term zerg is used in mmo games to describe force consisted of large group of lower level players (often with only basic equipment) who use numbers rather then strategy to defeat the enemy, therefore requiring no skill. This tactics is commonly known as zerging
To make oneself at home in a friend's place and lay waste there.
Originally from the game Starcraft where Zerg are an alien playable race who tend to expand through the map using their creep.
when a bunch of talentless noobs get together and try to use large numbers against one target, instead of skill and tactics.
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"My girlfriend bitched and zerged about how I never talk about feelings, 'how am I supposed to make this relationship work if you have such a range of emotions and it's impossible for me to decipher them and respond before the 7PM mark?'"
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My definition would be:
To be weaker then the opponent
e.g "That guys a zerg, you got this easy"
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On March 21 2011 05:33 Floobie wrote:
My definition would be:
To be weaker then the opponent
e.g "That guys a zerg, you got this easy"
I don't know if this is inappropriate.
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Seemed like it fit in with the whole swarm idea, the many is greater then the few makes me think of zerglings which are weaker without numbers.
In hindsight it does look like im talking about sc2 balance. Ah well.
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On March 21 2011 05:37 chenchen wrote:Show nested quote +On March 21 2011 05:33 Floobie wrote:
My definition would be:
To be weaker then the opponent
e.g "That guys a zerg, you got this easy" I don't know if this is inappropriate.
Perhaps its not appropriate, however it does capture some of the sentiments a lot of zerg players feel. to me Zerg is a feeling of oppression that must be over come by intelligence, timing and persistence.
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It's basically a synonym of "swarm", both in noun and verb form.
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Zerg: The galaxy's most evil emperor.
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On March 21 2011 06:36 rasdasd wrote:
Zerg: The galaxy's most evil emperor.
this ^ i hope everybody else gets the reference
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On March 21 2011 06:36 Moja wrote:
It's basically a synonym of "swarm", both in noun and verb form.
This. Point Set Match.
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On March 21 2011 06:36 rasdasd wrote:
Zerg: The galaxy's most evil emperor.
Ahaha so awesome and true xD
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"a zerg" to never be able to attack
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when i played SWG "zerg/ing" was thrown around often. probably in any MMO really, but yea haha.
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I think "to overwhelm with extraordinary numbers" is a great definition. I can see it come into common parlance, especially in the extermination industry.
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On March 21 2011 05:17 Kipsate wrote:
I remember from my WoW days,(if anyone here played it). In the WoW arena, where (especially) with 2 melee characters would basically tunnelvision a single character all game long to kill them, was called zerging.(Just zerg the priest ,for example). Then again, Zerg is also used to describe overwhelming numbers.
Melee, in wow ? in arenas ?
I think we played a different game sir.
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I like this term getting use outside of SC2 
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To overwhelm with extraordinary numbers is I think not the correct term. I think it need the addition of mentioning the expendability of what is in the extraordinary numbers. Something along the lines of
To overwhelm with extraordinary numbers of expendables.
This is because I don't think anyone would ever say they got zergged by thor's or any rl equivalent, because then it is just massing.
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On March 21 2011 07:00 zyglrox wrote:
when i played SWG "zerg/ing" was thrown around often. probably in any MMO really, but yea haha.
SWG (pre CU) was far above any MMO out there today.
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I some mmo or something (I have no idea which game, don't remember) zerging meant some players in a party rushing through a dungeon or similar, ignoring the rest of the group.
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I would have thought to zerg was to die before you ever get to your target destination.
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Zerg Definition: The act of being Zerg
Ex: Zerg rush kekekekekekeke
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The definition of zerging in MMOs is essentially using lots of low quality units or players to kill stronger opponents.
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United Kingdom16710 Posts
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Hmm, my definition.
To zerg would be to swarm the opponent with large numbers of inferior quality units.
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No one really says zerg rush kekeke anymore in SC2. It's more like Terran Scv All-in lololol
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Using the word "zerg" as a verb is an abomination.
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zerg was also used a lot in WOW old days in BGs, like "zerg the GY" or "Zerg Stables/ Farm" meaning everyone attack at once and keep attacking to overwhelm the opponents.
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On March 21 2011 10:01 GhostFall wrote:
No one really says zerg rush kekeke anymore in SC2. It's more like Terran Scv All-in lololol
Golden.
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Australia8532 Posts
+ Show Spoiler [joke] +To cry endlessly on forums
"Person A: I hate this game so much, it sucks
Person B: Quit being a zerg bro!"
I thought it had always been a term used to overwhelm in sheer numbers..
Nerd version of the word swarm?
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On March 21 2011 10:06 vojnik wrote:
zerg was also used a lot in WOW old days in BGs, like "zerg the GY" or "Zerg Stables/ Farm" meaning everyone attack at once and keep attacking to overwhelm the opponents.
Know what was disgusting? When I played WoW years ago, people were saying "zerg the <whatever>!" And I asked them if they knew who the zerg are.
"No? Who're the zerg?"
"You ever played Starcraft?"
"What's Starcraft?"
I was like :o
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On March 21 2011 10:12 Maynarde wrote:Show nested quote +On March 21 2011 10:06 vojnik wrote:
zerg was also used a lot in WOW old days in BGs, like "zerg the GY" or "Zerg Stables/ Farm" meaning everyone attack at once and keep attacking to overwhelm the opponents. Know what was disgusting? When I played WoW years ago, people were saying "zerg the <whatever>!" And I asked them if they knew who the zerg are. "No? Who're the zerg?" "You ever played Starcraft?" "What's Starcraft?" I was like :o
ye i had pretty much same experience 
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All of you zerg haters are awesome and awful at the same time... show some love!
We need moar proper definitions!
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to zerg
to follow everything the gracken of zerg says.
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Because I did a very well thought out post on the first page, I thought I might go for the funnies. I'm surprised this hasn't been said yet:
To zerg: Sexing
"He zerged her"
"She zerged him"
"I never zerg anyone so I want to kill myself"
"Lol, look at that guy, it seems some zerglings got in his pants"
"They zerged Them"
"Everyone would be happy and stop fighting if everyone just zerged all the time."
"lol wtf u nub i zerg your mom, gg"
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On March 21 2011 09:59 MileyCyrus wrote:
the movie 300
some how thats more like protoss...very low number of units, and everything hinging on the humble sentry holding of narrow passages
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a zerg, a swarm; a crowd, a drove, a herd, a horde, a mass, a multitude, a myriad, a throng
to zerg, to swarm; to abound, to be numerous, to cluster, to congregate, to crawl, to crowd, to gather like bees, to mass, to mob, to move in a crowd, to overrun, to pullulate, to rush together, to stream, to teem, to throng
thank you online thesaurus
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to be zerg:
cry 24/7
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Zerg (verb)
to genetically assimilate
Zerg (verb)
to conquer by outnumbering a force that would win in a 1 on 1 battle. To conquer a stronger opponent by outnumbering them
Zerg (noun)
Abomination, an abhorrence of something, a detested and disgusting mock up.
Zerg (verb)
To assimilate something and purify it, or bring out it's strengths and nullify it's weaknesses.
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