" clan "

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1: A word to refer to a closely-knit group usually quite large and fiercly defensive of eachother. Comes from the Clans of Scotland- who were blood relatives.

  * e.g.,  ... Quake II clans. 

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2: Now used more as a term for groups of video-games.

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1: A group of online gamers or lanning gamers who fight as a united group.

  * e.g.,  ... Telstra GameArena runs Clan Ladders, where anything up to hundreds of clans usually about 8 ppl can come together and fight on common servers with constant rules. Ie: anti cheating etc 

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2: Often traced back to there been friends, colleges or just fighting for a common goal such as to be the considered best, to be considered a real gamer and not a noob or just fun

  * e.g.,  ... In games such as Cs or Dod 

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1: A group of people working together in online multiplayer games. They may just play together for fun, or have training sessions and compete in tournaments.

  * e.g.,  ... Clanners need to get outside more often. 

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2: While there are exceptions, a majority of clans are filled with holier-than-thou assholes who think they're really something because they have a tag in front of their nickname. Any questioning of clan members invariably results in getting insulted repeatedly, so it's best to just let them be idiots and remember what it was like to be a teenager on the Internet anonymously.

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1: A clan is similar to the mafia family,

  * e.g.,  ... my mothers mother is the head of the clan because she is decended from the origional founder by blood, this means that i am a member of the family, i am also a 'pure blood member' because i am directly decended from the origional founder, although my father is loved by all in the family, he will never be more than an assosiate because he is not blood related to the clan. 

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2: Clan name= origional family name

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3: A number of families=a clan

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4: clans are also know as Famlies, other families can become assosiates of the clan by marrying into it but they will never be members or 'family' because you have to be related by blood, clan or family members can be members of a gang structure but the family always comes first, membership of gangs also leads to links or ties between clans.

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1: clan is a term used to describe a group of people who share a common intrest in gaming they are fiercly teritorial and watch each others backs

  * e.g.,  ... |LAB| are the little aussie battlers they are also known as chopper whores by fellow clans 

 [ "clan" ]

1: A coven of random dorks, either organized locally, as close friends and neighbors, or globally, like halfway across the world.

  * e.g.,  ... Casual Gamer (joined a CS server): "Hi!" 

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2: Their mission? To ruin the fun of casual gamers in mainly FPS shooters like Counter-Strike, Quake, Unreal, etc.

  * e.g.,  ... Klanner #1: "STFU N00b! We r teh l33t0rz to teh maxx0rz!" 

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3: Hours of play behind the screen has given their skin a unhealthy pale complexion.

  * e.g.,  ... Klanner #2: "Ya u gay azz fagg0t!" 

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4: A common hypothesis for these formations of these "clans", as they may call it, stemmed probably from neglected parenthood.

  * e.g.,  ... 20 minutes later... 

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1: ppl who take computer games way to seriously. hav training sessions in which they all have to be online at certain times etc etc.

  * e.g.,  ... person 1:that game was impossible to play once those clan members joined. 

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1: mostly groups of organized noobs in clubs that play on Halo. They camp and noob up a game so the other teams can't even spawn and they think they are good. They feel free to talk shit when they ain't shit. They also create "modded" games to help them win cause they suck for real.

  * e.g.,  ... Halo'r 1 "Dude, these clans are really noobin this game up today." 

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1: When fucked up people do fucked up things... thats a fucking clan

  * e.g.,  ... Ku Klux Klan or CLAN!!!! 

 [ "Clan-Clan" ]

1: verb: To stab or shank someone.

  * e.g.,  ... Aww man, I just got Clan-Clan'd! 

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2: From a particular series of Call of Duty 4 Domination matches where a player by the handle ClanClan (slightly changed to retain anonymity)seemed to be stabbing anyone in a 5 foot radius, he was dubbed "BladeMaster" by the other players, author included.

  * e.g.,  ... Dude, I just Clan-Clan'd that sucka!