alt
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- noun
- /ælt/
- Jargon
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cuenta alternativa
- Many gamers create alts to explore different playstyles in the game.
For those of you who find the name Cornhole upsetting, there are some alts like Sack, Toss, and Dadhole.
- For those of you who find the name Cornhole upsetting, there are some alts like Sack, Toss, and Dadhole.
- And what we would do is we would sort of pitch jokes and alts, which stands for alternate versions, I guess.
- Like a lot of the top researchers have these alts, they call them or like other accounts will there share more stuff?
Examples
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I log back onto that alt a couple of days later and BOOM!
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There are always long-time players with lots of alts and more gold than time who will pay nicely for mats.
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And then you start going for the harder stuff like alt coins.
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Also, anyone who makes alts does things more than once.
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Another risk is the fact that we know pretty openly that celebrities are getting paid big dollars for promoting random alt coins.
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There are opportunities to participate in alt runs, fill in core spots, or join partial PUGs with guildmates too.
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Got in accidentally on an alt I was leveling that I couldn't even be bothered leveling past 81.
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She has several alts on the platform to keep her main account private.
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The streamer often switches between her main account and her alts during gameplay.
Synonyms
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A second identity that is different from a person's usual self
A character a person plays as in video games that is different from their real life
Compounds
- Specialized
A keyboard command using the Control, Alt and Delete keys to open system options or stop a frozen program
How Developed
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Alt for an account is short for alternative, meaning a second or 'other' account you use besides your main one. That's why players and users call a spare profile an alt when they want to try things without using their main account.