Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly British Slang Aggressive or violent behavior.
- n. Chiefly British Slang Irritation or exasperation: "Postponing new hospitals and roads causes far less aggro than sacking town hall or Whitehall workers” ( Economist).
- adj. Slang Aggressive or violent.
- adj. Slang Daring and skillful, especially in a sport such as surfing.
Wiktionary
- n. Aggravation; bother.
- n. chiefly UK Aggressive behavior; loud, intimidating behavior that convincingly threatens violence without necessarily actually becoming violent.
- n. online gaming A measure of how belligerent a player is – a high value may inspire either avoidance or preemptive hostile action from enemies.
- n. online gaming Hostile attention from an enemy gained by acting belligerently.
- adj. Australia, New Zealand, slang Angry.
- adj. online gaming Liable to attack without being attacked first (said of monsters).
- adj. UK, US, slang Hardcore, aggressive.
- v. online gaming, intransitive To become aggressive towards the player's character.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. informal British usage aggravation or aggression.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (informal British usage) aggravation or aggression
Etymologies
- From aggravation + -o (“diminutive suffix”), influenced by aggressive. (Wiktionary)
- Short for aggravation and aggression. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Council inspectors to film 'aggro' mums HOLDFAST Bay parking inspectors are wearing mini video cameras to capture abuse from "aggro" mothers, pinged for illegally parking outside schools.”
“Tactical options are present and correct via a target marking system and the use of an "aggro" meter (more on that later), but in large you'll be doing a whole lot of running and a whole lot of gunning.”
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
“The aforementioned "aggro" system makes a comeback and is still simple to use yet rewarding as ever.”
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
“Co-op sits at the heart of everything, with the core idea being "aggro".”
“If both of your Siege Engines are alive, he'll trade 'aggro' between those.”
“I'm just trying to explain why people may have gotten all "aggro" over the review.”
“Units, left to their own devices, react only to an 'aggro' radius put out by the enemy, and have no qualm against letting fellow soldiers get gunned down if they're resting spitefully outside of that radius.”
“The player with the most "aggro" is the player that the monster will attack.”
“DoT spells have the advantage of creating less "aggro" for the player than spells that do their damage all at once.”
“Stoke know all about the 'aggro' Redknapp is talking about.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘aggro’.
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UK - slang
chin wag, arse about, bollock, starkers, sweet Fanny Adams, skive, shufti, codswallop, rhyming slang, bollocks, nookie, skew-whiff and 208 more...
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RPG
rogue, alchemy, lady's favor, trollkin, herald's call, critical hit, insect plague, alteration, conjuration, destruction, mysticism, illusion and 65 more...
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Because I like them: A -- B
abacinate, aberdevine, ablepsy, abuccinate, acarology, acipenserine, abactor, adamantine, addressin, aeoline, ahimsa, agelast and 151 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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Scenariot
Rebellious destruction, police and protestors, or just angry mobs.
bedlam, chaos, havoc, destruction, cataclysm, devastation, mayhem, plunder, ravage, wreckage, destroy, blitzkrieg and 112 more...
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Vocab
All the words I've come across whose definitions I did not know then.
aberration, abrogate, abscond, abstruse, acolyte, actuate, adulation, advert, aggrandize, aggro, ague, alimony and 273 more...
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the hate list
words that give me the heebidie jeebidies
suffragette, get 'er done, fringe, causeway, twee, jumper, tgif, actually, syringe, seltzer, raisin, whited sepulchre and 72 more...
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April 1st, 2013 A
My A words for the A-Z challenge.
acidic, atheist, athletic, aesthetic, arbitrary, abattoir, anachronistic, anchor, angry, angst, angelic, animosity and 10 more...
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HGard's Words
elucidate, episiotomy, aggro, slurpee, sack of potatoes, prolific, itsy bitsy, armageddon, really, certainly, surely, maybe and 28 more...
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chiefly british
windlestraw, boffin, poppet, bloody, motorway, telly, git, tyre, windscreen, zebra crossing, panda car, lorry and 61 more...
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The hotness
Greatest hits of the English language, according to confirmation bias.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for aggro.
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