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  • noun Plural form of LARPer.

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Examples

  • T-shirts, glow-in-the-dark fangs, fan clubs that meet like infamous live action role players (aka LARPers) and Youtube renditions featuring puppets have infiltrated everyday culture.

    The Lantern 2009

  • She says the idea for "Dioractive" came from varied sources of inspiration: LARPers (folks who do live-action roleplaying games), Civil War re-enactments (the real-life kind), history-based videogames (her brother's into these), and a diorama project she did in third grade.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • And, as hard as I am on LARPers, I have to give them credit for being the most uncloseted brand of geek in existence.

    I stalk LARPers 2009

  • Errrrrr. P.S. To all my friends and LARPers, you are loved, no worries.

    I stalk LARPers 2009

  • And I liked the idea of Vampire, with the moral component and all, but the mobs of teenaged Goth LARPers kinda put me off.

    My RPG DNA, Part 2: The Early Memphis Years « Geek Related 2010

  • Hello my name is Jason and I like to stalk LARPers.

    I stalk LARPers 2009

  • Coming up soon, my expose on the LARPers who meet at the park near my house every Saturday!

    RPG, it takes all kinds 2009

  • Anyway, I support your stalking of the LARPers, and would be willing to help you stalk them, maybe we could throw bread or oreos to them sometime!

    I stalk LARPers 2009

  • While the author wrestles with the personal and social implications of embracing his inner geek, he passes through a series of worlds: rolling (dice) with Dungeons and Dragons players, reenacting with medieval re-enactors, battling LARPers (practitioners of Live-Action Role Playing) with foam swords, assuming the persona of a digital elf online, and tramping through Hobbit country in New Zealand.

    Stefan Sirucek: Geek Like Me: A Review of Ethan Gilsdorf's Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks 2010

  • Vegabro it's a horror/scifi movie, it's not trying to say that LARPers believe they can create real magic. vegabro

    Peter Dinklage in Talks For Knights of Badassdom, Synopsis Revealed | /Film 2010

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