What Does This Mean?
In Spanish gamer speech, a "viciado" is a person hooked on a game or on gaming in general, someone who plays compulsively or for very long sessions ("estar viciado al LoL"). This entry covers the gaming and pastime sense; in standard Spanish "viciado" is first the participle of "viciar" with senses such as corrupted, flawed or adulterated.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""Estoy viciado al Fortnite y no paro de jugar," he admitted to his friends."
LORE & ORIGIN
Spanish Wiktionary lists, among the senses of the verb "viciar", causing someone to acquire a vice or bad habit, and a variant of "enviciarse" with the example "viciar con la play", which refers to gaming. "Viciado" is the participle of that verb. No source consulted documents when the gaming sense spread, and the word is attested here only through this general verb sense and its gaming example, so the sense of "hooked on games" is described from those parts. Colloquial use ranges from a playful remark about a friend who plays a lot to a more serious worry about addiction.
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