Define Ganking Meaning

ambush in online games

An imaginary means of killing someone 'unfairly' in WoW.

Ganking, by definition of the game is quite impossible, because killing people of the enemy faction in any way, even if looked down upon is the object of the game.

If ganking wasn't the intention of the developers, it would be taken out. Plain and simple.

Using the Vibram soles of your Herman Survivors hiking boots to leave long black scuff marks across any and all surfaces, especially downtown on store fronts, or the ceilings of the high school bathrooms. In use regionally since at least 1974. A trademark behavior of the "Ramsey Reckers".

It is a word commonly used in online video games, usualy used in an MMORPG. Ganking is the process in which a group of charecters gang up on one or more players that do not have a chance to defend themselves, Or when one high level player does the same action to a player way below his or her own level

To steal or take something that does not belong to you.

To kill something. Usually a monster.

gank, v. to kill a monster

1. vt. (Am. slang) To steal in a surreptitious or underhanded manner
2. vt. (O.L. slang) To gang up on and frag an opponent in an MPG
3. vt. (Am. H-Hop)Character assassination

When a group of people kill a single opponent in an MMORPG. Taken to abreviate a "gang kill".

verb (Online, MMORPG usage)
1. To kill another player using a group of players
2. To kill another player using any means that places the played to be killed at a substantial disadvantage.

Widely popularised following the success of World of Warcraft, the word "gank" comes from "gang kill", used in earlier MMORPGs like Ultima Online. A gang kill occurs when a group (or gang) of players attack a single one and kill him/her with relative ease.

The meaning has now extended to any player kill where the killed player had little chance to avoid death.