WOW
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- Alternative letter-case form of WoW (“World of Warcraft”).
- 2008, Julie Cameron, Tony Flowers, Margaret Hart, Mark Peace, Neil Renton, Duncan Watts, Michael Wright, AQA Sociology A2, Nelson Thornes, →ISBN, page 143:
- An interesting example is World of Warcraft (WOW), a fantasy, role-playing game in which players adopt characters and try to work their way from level 1 to level 80 by fighting with other players and acquiring weapons and magical artefacts.
- 2008 December 9, Max Snelling, “Addicts Anonymous”, in Mouth of the River, page 19:
- The most popular of these games has become commonly known by the acronym WOW, but is actually called World of Warcraft. […] And it isn't just youth who are playing the game, "I'd say about 50% of players on WOW are over the age of 25," claims Xander Bahl, a sophomore at ORHS.
- 2009 February, “Meet the team”, in PC Zone, number 203, page 47:
- What with growing buzz on what is suddenly a real challenger to World of Warcraft throne as Star Wars: The Old Republic rumbles into view, I’d also be surprised if the goliath Acti-Bliz corporation don’t rattle sabres back at EA with, at the very least, the name of the MMO that Blizzard are developing alongside WOW.
- 2013, Eric Smith, The Geek’s Guide to Dating, Philadelphia, Pa.: Quirk Books, →ISBN, page 0041:
- The good news is, in dating, as in WOW, you will always resurrect from a bad encounter, with only a little bit of invisible armor damage and no reason not to try again.
- 2014, Beaumie Kim, Lynde Tan, Seng Chee Tan, “‘Perhaps This Can Be For Education’: […]”, in Michael Orey, Stephanie A. Jones, Robert Maribe Branch, editors, Educational Media and Technology Yearbook, volume 38, Cham: Springer, →ISBN, part I (Trends and Issues in Learning, Design, and Technology), page 36:
- In this excerpt, Weibin in turn #3 suggested another idea of using the dinosaur as a “mount”, a common item in popular online games, such as MapleStory and WOW.