Recreation definitions beginning with N

N00b - permalink - collapse

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An incredibly uncool way to say newb. Don't use it.
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Browse Related Terms: AH, auc, release, Res, Rez, rez/res

Named - permalink - collapse

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A special monster that is usually stronger than surrounding monsters with possible special abilities and item drops.
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A special monster that is usually stronger than surrounding monsters with possibil special abilities and item drops. Identified with a silver border portrait in WoW.
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Browse Related Terms: Add, Drop Loot, MT, NBG, Ninja, ot, Pat, Tank

nares - permalink - collapse

All > Recreation > Fishing

The nostrils of fish.
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Browse Related Terms: balance, over-fishing, Overpopulated (overcrowded), Recruitment, Spawning, tagging

nascar - permalink - collapse

All > Recreation > Sports > NASCAR

An abbreviation for the "National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing."
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Browse Related Terms: dnf, dnq, Factory, Happy Hour, series

National Basketball Association - permalink - collapse

All > Recreation > Sports > Basketball

a professional league created in 1949 that now has 27 teams in the U.S. and is adding 2 Canadian teams in 1995.
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Browse Related Terms: Dream Team, franchise, franchise player, National Basketball Association, National Collegiate Athletic Association, upset

National Collegiate Athletic Association - permalink - collapse

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a voluntary association of over 1,200 colleges and universities in the U.S. whose role is to establish standards and protect the integrity of amateurism for student-athletes.
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Browse Related Terms: Dream Team, franchise, franchise player, National Basketball Association, National Collegiate Athletic Association, upset

National Invitational Tournament - permalink - collapse

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the oldest college tournament, in which 32 teams not selected to the NCAA Tournament compete each year.
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Browse Related Terms: boosters, Final Four, March Madness, NCAA Tournament, National Invitational Tournament

Natural - permalink - collapse

All > Recreation > Games > Baccarat

this is the original hand consisting of the first two cards which total 8 or 9.
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When the two cards total to 8 or 9.
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An 8 or a 9 with the first two cards.
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Browse Related Terms: La Grande, La Petite, Le Grande, Petite, Sabot

All > Recreation > Games > Blackjack

In blackjack, a natural is a two-card hand of 21 points. In baccarat a natural is a two-card total of eight, or nine.
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A blackjack.
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A hand whose first two cards total 21. Also known as blackjack.
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Browse Related Terms: Blackjack, Draw, Hit, Pat, Pat hand

naxx - permalink - collapse

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Short for Naxxramas, a high level winged instance in Plaguelands.
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Browse Related Terms: gimp, leveling, LVL, powerleveling, ql, Rushing, sm, Twink, twinking, xr

NBG - permalink - collapse

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- Need Before Greed, only people that need an item will roll dice (in case there are more than one player in the team that needs the item).
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Need Before Greed, a looting system in WoW where items are distributed to players in a party according to need.
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Browse Related Terms: Add, Drop Loot, MT, Named, Ninja, ot, Pat, Tank

NCAA Tournament - permalink - collapse

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an annual competition between 64 college teams to crown a national champion; also called March Madness because the three-week-long event is held during March; see also Final Four.
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Browse Related Terms: boosters, Final Four, March Madness, National Invitational Tournament

ne - permalink - collapse

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Night Elf
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Browse Related Terms: be / belf, teldrassil, world of warcraft stratics, WoW

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Nerf - permalink - collapse

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When a skill or a class gets some of its benefits lessened or removed, in order to balance the game, that skill or class gets nerfed.
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To downgrade, to be made softer, or make less effective. "X has been nerfed."
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A negative change; to downgrade or weaken something.
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Browse Related Terms: AE, AoE, area of effect (ae/aoe), Curse, point blank area of effect (pbae/pbaoe), Proc, Stack

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nest - permalink - collapse

All > Recreation > Fishing

The spot in where are fish, such as a largemouth bass or bluegill, deposits its eggs. Some nests, such as those for largemouth bass, can be well defined. For largemouth bass, the female lays the eggs and the male guards the eggs. See the listing for "redd."
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Browse Related Terms: bass, black bass, Bluegill, bluegill or bluegills, Bream, largemouth bass, Redear sunfish, Shellcracker, Sunfish

Neutral - permalink - collapse

All > Recreation > Sports > NASCAR

A term drivers use when referring to how their car is handling. When a car is neither loose nor pushing (tight).
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A term drivers use when referring to how their car is handling. When a car is neither loose nor pushing (tight).
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Browse Related Terms: balance, Push, Tight, understeer

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Newb - permalink - collapse

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Short for Newbie. See above.
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Browse Related Terms: dorf, gratz/gz, hume, rdy, st, sup?, temple

Newbie - permalink - collapse

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A term that sometimes means new player. Newbie is also used to suggest that a player is not very good.
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A new player. Sometimes used negatively to imply a weak player.
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Browse Related Terms: anti / anti-pk, Farm, Kill Steal (KS), kill-stealer, KOS, KS, leech, Loot, newbie zone, PK, respawn

newbie zone - permalink - collapse

All > Recreation > Games > World of Warcraft

Area around starting cities where newbies first start killing mobs.
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Browse Related Terms: anti / anti-pk, Farm, Kill Steal (KS), kill-stealer, KOS, KS, leech, Loot, Newbie, PK, respawn

newb/newbie/n00b - permalink - collapse

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A person that has never played the game before; saying "n00b" implies that you think they're a complete idiot, so avoid using that version.
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Browse Related Terms: Bot, brb, newb/newbie/n00b, ooc, pp, RP, RPG

Niche - permalink - collapse

All > Recreation > Fishing

Organisms role, or job, in the ecosystem in which it lives.
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Browse Related Terms: biology, Ecosystem, Fishing closures, Food chain, hydrology, ichthyology

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N00b - permalink - collapse

Named - permalink - collapse

nares - permalink - collapse

nascar - permalink - collapse

National Basketball Association - permalink - collapse

National Collegiate Athletic Association - permalink - collapse

National Invitational Tournament - permalink - collapse

Natural - permalink - collapse

naxx - permalink - collapse

NBG - permalink - collapse

NCAA Tournament - permalink - collapse

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Nerf - permalink - collapse

nest - permalink - collapse

Neutral - permalink - collapse

Newb - permalink - collapse

Newbie - permalink - collapse

newbie zone - permalink - collapse

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Niche - permalink - collapse

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