gank
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- noun
- /ɡæŋk/
- Slang
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emboscada
- After several failed attempts to secure a kill, they finally executed a successful gank on the lone player in the jungle.
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Thus, if this item only works for 10 minutes, it does nothing to harm gankers because it is only preventing ganks before 10 minutes, and those don't exist (edit: in pro games, which I watch but don't play. Trying to get 1900 and pro myself though).
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In the final match, their gank strategy overwhelmed our defenses and changed the tide of the game.
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You got a gank!
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We will flood the game's main channels and be invulnerable to ganks as we will be traveling in groups of thousands!
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And just as Samsung ganks Android OS and rebrands it as their own, making it proprietary and poor in the process, there are always losers in a war of ideals on a money-driven planet.
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The enemy's sudden gank caught our team off guard, leading to a quick defeat.
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Etymology
The word gank as a noun likely comes from gang 'group' and names the attack itself. So a gank is an ambush by several players meant to overwhelm one person.