What Does This Mean?
Abruptly leaving a game (or, in its original broader sense, a chatroom or online argument) out of pure frustration or anger, rather than because the session actually ended.
EXPLAINER
Deconstruction Gaming · original source ↗
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"He rage quit the second his character died to that exact same trap for the third time."
LORE & ORIGIN
At least as old as early IRC/chatroom culture, documented by 2005, originally describing someone storming offline mid-argument before narrowing into its now-dominant gaming meaning.
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