The slang dictionary is a list of informal words, expressions, and abbreviations that are commonly used in the Old School RuneScape community. It is incomplete, and never will be complete because Old School RuneScape 's community and vocabulary is constantly changing.
This slang dictionary only lists Old School RuneScape -specific terms.
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Abbreviation
Meaning
AB, AB-er
Anti-ban , Anti-botter
Abby
Abyssal , Aberrant spectres , Abyssal whip , Abyssal demon
Ac
Anti-crash (usually for bosses or group Wilderness fights)
Acc
Account , Accuracy
Acb
Armadyl crossbow
Acp
Armadyl chestplate
Acs
Armadyl chainskirt
Addy
Adamant
Ads
Anti-dragon shield , Abyssal dagger (p++)
AFK(ing)
Away from keyboard—an account training while the person has gone away from the keyboard.
Aggro
Aggressiveness (referring to a monster's behaviour around players)
Ags
Armadyl godsword
Ah
Armadyl helmet , Ahrim's
Air(s)
Air rune
Alch(ing)
Using an alchemy spell to convert items into gold using either Low or High Level Alchemy .
Alt
Alternative account, generally the second account.
Ammy
Amulet
Ancients
Ancient Magicks
Anti
Antipoison , Anti-dragon shield or Antifire
AntiD, Anti D shield
Anti-dragon shield
AntiP, Ap, SuperAP
Antipoison , Super antipoison potions
AoE
Area of Effect—referring to attacks and/or abilities that affect multiple targets at once.
AoTD
Amulet of the damned
Arc
Arcane spirit shield , Arceuus (house or spellbook )
Ardy
Ardougne
Arma
Armadyl
Atk, Att
Attack , Attacker role in Barbarian Assault
Autoer, autoing
A bot user/using a bot
Auto, AA
Auto Retaliate
Ava's
Ava's attractor , accumulator , or assembler
Avs, Avies, Avys
Aviansie
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Abbreviation
Meaning
B, bil
Billion, e.g. 1b = 1,000,000,000 coins .
B2B, BTB
Bones to Bananas , Back to back
B2P, BTP
Bones to Peaches
BA
Barbarian Assault
Bank made
An exclamation, usually sarcastic, about the value of a drop or other benefit. Particularly used of drops (such as the abyssal whip and dragon boots ) which used to be extremely valuable and are now merely "nice".
Bankstanding
AFKing or socialising with other players in a populated area such as a bank or the Grand Exchange .
Barb
Barbarian , Barb-tail harpoon , Barbarian Village
Barrage
Ice Barrage or any other Barrage spell in the Ancient Magicks spellbook.
Baxe
Battleaxe
Barb Village, Barb Vil
Barbarian Village
Bbones
Big bones
Bcp
Bandos chestplate
BF
Blast Furnace
B gloves
Barrows gloves from Recipe for Disaster
Bgs
Bandos godsword
BiS
Best-in-slot
BK
Bot kill(ing) (Player killing bots in the Wilderness )
BKK(er)
Bot Killer Kill(er)
Blitz
Ice Blitz or any other Blitz spell in the Ancient Magicks spellbook.
Blk
Black
Box
Fighting rules at Duel Arena , when no equipment is used. Or purposely being attacked by a friend or monster whilst in single combat in order to avoid being killed by a PKer .
Bp
Toxic blowpipe
Br, brz
Bronze
Brac, Brace
Bracelet
Brassy
Verac's brassard (Armour )
Brew(s)
Typically Saradomin brews
Brid
A player who fights with more than one point on the Combat Triangle . See hybridding .
Broads
Broad-tipped bolts (Ranged ammunition)
BS, BSer
Bow strings , bank sale, back stabber (usually used in Wildy )
BSS
Blessed spirit shield
B sale, Bsale
Bank sale (used when players have lots of stuff to sell)
Bsk, Bskr, Zerk(er), Berz
Berserker
Btw
By the way. Also used as a joke refering to Ironmen , example: "I'm a btw, btw" meaning "I'm an ironman, btw."
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Abbreviation
Meaning
Cammy, Cam
Camelot
Cannon, Cann
Dwarf multicannon
Cath, Cathy
Catherby
Cav
Cavalier hats
Cb, Cb lvl, Cbt, Cmb, Cmbt, Combat
Combat (level)
Cball
Cannonball
Cbow
Crystal bow , Crossbow
CC
Clan Chat
Chofl
A haughty way of expressing contempt towards another player. Variant of "Rofl"
Chins, chinning
Chinchompas , or the act of hunting/using chinchompas.
Choob
A high-level player who acts like a noob .
Clue, Clueing
Clue scroll , attempting to get a clue scroll or doing Treasure trails .
Con, Cons
Construction
Crash
Stealing a person or group's kills at a multicombat boss (like God Wars Dungeon , or Dagannoth Kings ). See crashing .
CW, CWA, cwars
Castle Wars , Clan Wars , change worlds (CW)
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Abbreviation
Meaning
D/Drag (weapon/armour name)
Dragons , Dragon equipment
Da, Duel
Duel Arena , Ring of dueling
Dag, Dagg
Dagannoth , dagger
Dbones, D bones
Dragon bones
DC, Dced, Dc'd
Disconnected
Dclaws
Dragon claws
DD
Dragon dagger , death dot (see below), dragon defender (more commonly known as ddef)
DDP
Dragon dagger poisoned
DDP+
Dragon dagger extra poisoned—sometimes mistakenly used instead of DDP++.
DDP++, DDS
Dragon dagger (p++)
Death dot, DD
A multicombat player killing tactic where a number of players stand on the same square, making them appear as one player on the minimap .
Def
Defence , Defender
Def tank, Defence tank
Player with a Defence level of upwards of 90 or higher. Usually a player who is not pure and has Defence as one of their highest combat skills. See tanking .
Dfs
Dragonfire shield . Sometimes erroneously used for Anti-dragon shield .
Dh
Dharok's
Dh axe
Dharok's greataxe
Dhide, D hide, D'hide
Dragonhide
Dharok'ing, Dh'ing
Getting one's Hitpoints as low as possible while in full Dharok's to maximise damage inflicted in battle. Often accompanied with protection prayers .
DK, DKs
Dagannoth Kings
DM
Deathmatch
Dmg
Damage
Dp
Drop party , drop potential, death potential, door partner (to get past the doors in the Waterbirth Island Dungeon ), Death Plateau
DPS
Damage per Second (amount of damage dealt over time)
DS
Dragon spear , Double shot (mainly used in reference to the dark bow and magic shortbow ), dragon scimitar
DS1, DS2
Dragon Slayer and Dragon Slayer II respectively
DT
Desert Treasure
Dusts
Dust devils
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Abbreviation
Meaning
F2P, F2Pers, Ftp
Non-members (Free-to-play )
Fally
Falador
Farcaster
Someone who casts a "hold" spell and doesn't go face-to-face with another player (often used with Ancient Magicks ' freeze spells ).
FC, FCC
Friends chat channel
FFA
Free for all. Person who deals the most damage gets the drop.
FI, Fall, Fi
Fall in, used to get people to follow a leader into a war or battle or player killing trip.
Flat
A term used to describe having 99 Attack , Strength , Defence and Hitpoints .
Flip(ing)
A term that refers to buying an item and then, within a short period of time, selling it for a profit.
FM
Firemaking , Farming , Forum moderator
FMod
Forum moderator
Fremmy, Frem
Fremennik
Froob
Free-to-play noob
Full
Complete set that usually consists of a helm , shield , body piece and leg piece (such as full rune armour ), or inventory being full (e.g. picking flax ).
Funning
Duelling for fun (possible rules and no stake).
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Abbreviation
Meaning
M, Mil
Million (e.g. 6M = 6,000,000)
Mage, Mager
Referring to the Magic skill, a player who uses Magic more than Ranged or Melee ; an NPC wizard ; a player with 99 Magic; a player currently using Magic for combat .
Mage tank
Player with high Magic and Defence .
Main
A player's main character.
MB
Mage bank (the Mage Arena in Deep Wilderness ), Mage box (used in duelling ), or "my bad" meaning sorry
Maul
Granite maul , Obsidian maul
Mauler
Player who uses a Granite maul , or Obsidian maul as their weapon.
Nax, Maxed, Maxing
When a stat has reached level 99 (e.g. maxed Strength ); when someone hits their max hit on a person (maxing); or when someone has a combat level of 126 – often referred to as "maxed cb" or "max melee".
MD
Melee distance
Med (helm)
A regular helm , after the old name, medium helmet .
Mem, Memb, P2P
Member
Mep1, Mep2
Mourning's Ends Part I and Mourning's Ends Part II
Merching, Merch, Merchanting
Usually means the buying of an item then selling that same item later on in order to make a profit.
Meta
"Most Effective Tactic Available" or the dominant strategy , referring to the best or most popular method used in a scenario such as Skill training , Bossing , etc.
Mith
Mithril
Mlm
Motherlode Mine
MM1, MM2
Monkey Madness I and Monkey Madness II
MSB
Magic shortbow
Mta
Mage Training Arena , north of the Duel Arena
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P [ ]
Abbreviation
Meaning
P2P(er)
Members (Pay-to-Play)
Pass, pw
Password (the word password is censored in-game), Shantay pass , Underground Pass
PB
Personal best, i.e. best completion time of a boss.
PC
Pest Control , Private chat , Price check
Ph, Phat
Partyhat
Phas
Port Phasmatys
Pile, Piling
Multiple people attacking the same opponent.
Pick
Pickaxe
PJ, PJer, PJing
Pile jumping . The act of interrupting a player vs player fight by attacking one or both of the players, or attacking the winner of a fight, aiming to get the loot pile.
PK, PKer, PKing
Player killer /Player killing. Someone who is fighting other players - specifically in the Wilderness or other high risk PvP areas.
Plate
Platebody
PM
Private message
PMod
Player Moderator
POH
Player-owned houses
Pot, Pots
Potion , Lobster pot . Can also be used to inform other players in a group to drink their potions ("pot up"). There is also an item named pot .
Potter
Someone who uses potions to fight.
PPot, Pray Pot
Prayer potion
PP
Pyramid Plunder , Pickpocketing , Prayer points.
Price Check (PC)
Term used to find the price of the item.
Prod
Someone that relies on a certain weapon or special attack when Pking/PvPing to defeat their opponent. For example, "AGS prod".
Pure
Someone who trains only one type of skill ; someone who only trains combat skills, or only non-combat skills. See Combat pure , Defence pure , or Skill pure .
Pure set
Super Attack and Strength , but no Super Defence . Also refers to a dragonhide armour set minus the body .
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R [ ]
Abbreviation
Meaning
R2H
Rune two-handed sword
Rags, Ragging, Raggers
Term often used in PKing as someone with inferior or cheap gear.
Rambo, Rambo spec, Rambo special
Term often used in pking for a high-hitting special attack , or a combination of regular hits that surprises the opponent. A word derived from John Rambo , a muscular hard lined character from the movie, First Blood .
Range Tank
Player who focuses mainly on Ranged and Defence .
Rangers, Rngrs
Ranger boots
RC(ing)
Runecrafting
RC Pker
Runecrafter player killer . Someone who killed a runecrafter on their way to the Abyss runecrafting area.
RCB
Rune crossbow
RDT, GDT
Rare drop table , Gem Drop Table
Recoil
Ring of recoil
Red barred
Term sometimes used to describe a monster/person with so little Hitpoints that its health bar is almost completely red.
Req(s)
Requirement(s)
Rev(s)
Revenants
Rex
Dagannoth Rex
RFD
Recipe for Disaster
Rimmy
Rimmington
RMH, RFH
Rune helm , Rune full helm
RNG
Ranged , random number generator
Robin
Robin Hood hat
ROL
Ring of life
ROW
Ring of wealth
RS
RuneScape
RS2
RuneScape 2
RS3
The current main branch of RuneScape , RuneScape 3 .
RSC/RS1
RuneScape Classic
RSHD
RuneScape HD
RSOF
RuneScape Official Forums
Rush, Rusher
PKing tactic, in which a player is attacked directly after finishing a fight by someone using a high-powered spec weapon (eg. Dragon claws , Armadyl godsword ). See rushing .
RWT
Real world trading
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Abbreviation
Meaning
SC
Skill capes
SOTD
Staff of the dead
SSC
Stronghold Slayer Cave
Safer
Someone who heals at a life points value that is greater than the maximum hit of the opponent or in some cases eating to full Hitpoints . Typically used in the context of one-on-one PvP . Although, some use it in multi-way combat incorrectly.
Sand casino
Duel Arena , particularly when used for staking wealth
Santa
Santa hat
Sara
Saradomin
Scimmy, Scim
Scimitar
Seers
Seers' Village
SGS
Saradomin godsword
Shilo
Shilo Village
Short
Shortsword , Shortbow
Skirt
Plateskirt
Skiller
Someone who trains non-combat skills (can be any Combat level )/more commonly someone who trains non-combat skills primarily or exclusively. See Skill pure .
Snipe
To target and gain a desirable item by outbidding or beating another player to it. See Sniping .
SOS, Stronghold
Stronghold of Security
Spec
Special attack , Spectral spirit shield
Sq
Square shield
Str
Strength
SS
Saradomin sword
Super sets (Sup att/atk, Sup def, Sup str)
Super attack potion , Super defence potion , Super strength potion
Sword
Swordfish , Sword , or Longsword
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U [ ]
Abbreviation
Meaning
(u)
Unstrung, unenchanted, uncharged, etc.
(unf)
Unfinished
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