25 DBD Terms and Phrases Defined - DBD Lingo/Slang You HAVE to Know [Dead by Daylight Guide]

[@sh6rpshot]

Encountered a DBD term not mentioned in this video? Comment it below so that we can define it for you :) P.S. If you all found this video super helpful and informative, I might do a part 2!!

[@resilvers]

sharp tec

[@streakgaming6106]

Please do make a part 2, I needed videos like this for awhile.

[@mehdewy]

Rip infinites, also definition: Loops so good that you could loop the killer around for a very long time if you did it right,

[@RealWoxem]

DC: when a player leaves the match, like the killer or surv. DS: Desecive Strike, you tell your friends to unhook you even without BT

[@mehdewy]

@@RealWoxem Unbreakable+DS: Every rank 1 survivor ever

[@xela2065]

Great video ! There is also a dead zone : a part of the map with no loops and no pallets

[@sh6rpshot]

That’s another good term!

[@nicknyethesaxguy894]

So just autohaven?

[@yvng]

@@nicknyethesaxguy894 and shelter woods

[@b1akn3ss93]

Well no decent loops ...

[@andrejris7273]

its called no man's land

[@Lusius8879]

You didn't even mention teabagging and flashlight clicking :O But a couple of serious ones I missed: proxy camping. Definition: staying in proximity of a hooked survivor. suiciding. Intentional killing oneself on hook. Window baiting. The act of faking a vault to bait the killer into attacking. (Double) backing. Faking going one direction, only to then reverse one's direction. Basically the survivor's version of moonwalking. Though much less common: tagging. forcing the killer to switch targets mid-chase (often done through one survivor stealthing and the other one running in sight) Flicking. It's only for some killers and I don't have a clear definition for it, but still worth a mention. Boop the snoot. I mean, how can you talk about dbd terms without this one? The act of pointing at a Pig's snout. Dead zone. A space with nothing to loop around. Ór a zone with no available hooks. God pallet. A pallet a killer is forced to break, because it blocks a path. Generally in straight, narrow paths. Like the balcony pallet on Ormond. Basement bubba is also just one worth mentioning, cuz it's too iconic. Urbaning. The act of crouching everywhere, mostly while having the perk urban evasion. Flashlight/pallet saves. Stunning a killer while they are carrying a survivor, using a flashlight/pallet. Popping a gen. A killer using pop on a generator. OR the act of completing a gen. 360ing. The act of dodging a killer's attack by running a circle around him/in front of him. Insta-downing. Dropping a survivor 2 health stages with a single attack. That's about all I can think of for now. Hope you enjoyed reading this wall of text xD Anyways, good vid. Very informative for new players and very clearly spoken and well structured! Good job mate!

[@sh6rpshot]

These are all great terms!!!

[@xela2065]

Flicking is for billy, blight or huntress and its a strategy to counter the dodges of the survivors but yes hard to explain

[@ryrieceratops]

The pig term is very important 🤣

[@Lusius8879]

@@xela2065 nurse, oni and I THINK nemesis also flick. And I wish Pyramid could flick xD

[@Lusius8879]

@@ryrieceratops very true. Boop the snoot. #1 term

[@femkev.5245]

A newer term that has entered the DBD lexicon are "gifts." This is when a survivor sets their item down in front of the killer as a peace-offering, usually in the endgame after the hatch has been closed. The killer can choose whether to accept the gift or not, but it's generally considered good sportsmanship to respect it and allow that survivor to escape.

[@Bluemansonic]

This is new to me, thank you I will now respect a Survivors wishes if they put their item down...unless I have 3 escaped and little to no hooks

[@beelu8295]

interesting concept tbh. I'll try to do so and see what happens :D

[@omarplay2978]

oh ok now i get it, everytime i play killer and decide to show mercy on the last survivor they drop their items before leaving. I didnt understand why i thought it was just a waste tbh

[@Aspire09]

There’s also the “neaty” which is the entity but it disguises itself as Nea…..

[@sh6rpshot]

😂😂

[@ttvcleoleo215]

Nea-tity hehehe

[@fusionmozy8554]

K

[@wolfpack9757]

NeaTity hehehehehe says trappy boi

[@KokosHraje]

4:12 - Dont kobe before the struggle phase! It will take more from the bar!

[@ghlow6346]

yep only kobe when everyone is slugged and its the only way you escape

[@rossalbane7743]

I try it when I see teammates coming for a safe save

[@rejectedspace1091]

If you're teammates are close enough to save you but they're too far to save you before the struggle phase, it's worth a try so you have a chance to not be dead on hook next time

[@tremeschinion9420]

definition of tunneling: normal people: it's when the killer only goes after 1 survivor and doesnt chase anyone else rank 1 survivors: it's when the killer hooks you and doesn't DC

[@Bluemansonic]

8:12 you forgot to mention that sometimes us Killers tunnel so we can get a guaranteed kill because there are so many games where all 4 survivors are way better than killer and all 4 escape

[@madammazzz]

Tbh I semi tunnel normally just bc it happens that way. Lol 🤷‍♀️ I dont tunnel purposely unless they're clearly better than me and I've tried and failed going after all the others. 😂 Aka the rage mode bc their looping game made me mad and look stupid.

[@me1032]

bloodlusting: when a killer chases a survivor around a pallet without breaking it trying to get bloodlust 3

[@Bluemansonic]

Ooooh, I love doing that, and that's a cool phrase I've never heard for it, every survivor just calls it noobish or tunnelling

[@me1032]

@@Bluemansonic tunneling is ignoring every survivor just to one out of the game instantly

[@me1032]

@@Bluemansonic they probably call bloodlusting noobish because you only see new killers do it or boosted killers

[@Magicarpmaster]

@@me1032 As a killer its the smartest thing to get rid of a survivor as soon as possible. Is it fun for that survivor? No, but it substancially increases the killers odds of getting a 4k.

[@shadowbladesabre1945]

@@Magicarpmaster trying to get rid of a survivor quickly and relentlessly targetting a single survivor until they die are different things, and if you do the latter... Not cool

[@homer5359]

I know everything you say in your videos but I still watch them… you have one of the best channels for newer players and we thank you for that

[@sh6rpshot]

I really appreciate that :)

[@bgbd182]

There's also the distinction between "safe" loops/pallets and "unsafe" ones

[@rejectedspace1091]

TRUE

[@gabrote42]

This

[@rubyzombiesniper3699]

360s, dumb tech, flashlight save, pallet save, DC, looping, L T wall, and holing the killer. All ideas for part 2!

[@mackthechild6877]

all the common killer and survivor perk nicknames.

[@santinoamin296]

what is dumb tech?

[@rubyzombiesniper3699]

santino amin when you stun the killer with a pallet, you vault back to them and crouch, so he thinks you went past him, then you vault back. It's a toxic thing to do to embarrass killers

[@athletico3548]

you talked a lot of stuff but forgot the most important: CJ TECH

[@santinoamin296]

@@athletico3548 what is the cj tech?

[@_trademarc__]

POV: You know all this but you're still watching

[@IAmTheKnight26]

Just gotta double check ya know?

[@tiazoh]

Super useful! I have a group of new players I bought the game for who are excited to play, this was on my playlist of "helpful DBD" videos I gave them

[@sh6rpshot]

I’m glad it is :) I hope they enjoy the game!

[@MrSnax1]

I played dbd 1 year ago but i still find this helpful to me lmao

[@KokosHraje]

Im going to send this to my friends! Thanks for this content :D you have my sub

[@SpicyAndy]

Other than face camping there's "stealth camping", or just me and my friends call it so, when killer camps a hook in not so obvious way, for example ghostface pretending to leave a hook and sneaking back in so survivors don't know he's camping, or huntress sniping just outside of her terror radius but constantly looking at hook, and we also use term "proxy camping" for killer constantly going back and forth so they can get some pressure on the nearby gens never giving you a window of time big enough to safely unhook

[@mattjones8713]

We say proxy camping for when the kill patrols around a hooked survivor. But not going too far away. And puppy guard when the killer will just camp their hex totem.

[@TheRedfieldWay]

for Kobe, we just call it 4%ing.

[@Unlogo]

we have got the numbers

[@codyacevedo2686]

Information wise , this is the best vid I’ve seen !

[@jess-7319]

The term Blendete means trying to hide or just wearing a cosmetic that blends well in the environment not being useless (mostly) that’s just my opinion

[@sarthakcoulekar]

I just bought DBD a week ago. Thanks for the knowledge!

[@TheKingsRook]

I saw a video mention it, what is "Dead hard"?

[@julexar]

You forgot a few: - DS (Short for decisive strike) - Bubba (name for the Cannibal) - Plag / Vommy mommy (name for the plague) - Billy (name for the hillbilly) - bing bong (name for the wraith) - doc (name for doctor) - piggy (name for pig) - bt (Short for borrowed time) - god pallet - noed (Short for no one escapes Death)

[@bgbd182]

Bubba is not just a name for the Cannibal, it's Leatherface's actual name, Bubba Sawyer

[@cainthings]

Most of these are just nicknames, what do you mean?

[@julexar]

@@cainthings That is true for the ones mentioned in the video too - all of them are technically just nicknames/names for certain situations

[@cainthings]

@@julexar No. The situations mentioned in the video is ***NAMES*** and what you said are only ***NICKNAMES*** for the killers and perks. Nicknames and names are different for both of those.

[@julexar]

@@cainthings Yet their still slang that new players don’t know

[@zombiekiller8729]

maan.. im chilean and im new in DBD so I was very lost.. thank you so much!!

[@sh6rpshot]

Anytime!!

[@cassuthe3645]

I was super dissapointed when you didn't mention survivor moonwalk because its super good to ttick nurse and spirit

[@uzamarkiie8980]

When I got in a 3-gen situation and the killer was doctor we literally struggled to finish gens and all of us ended up dying

[@Bluemansonic]

3 gen is my favorite part of the game, I suck at early game but THRICE in late mid/end game

[@rejectedspace1091]

That happened to me as killer earlier today and I didn't even try to make it happen, and yes I got the 4k and no I did not deserve it

[@fern_boy_2146]

Hey it’s me fern boy from your stream last night

[@sh6rpshot]

Hi!!

[@theotheory7586]

These videos are so helpful - Thank you so much Sharpshot :)

[@sh6rpshot]

I’m glad you find them helpful :)

[@daduxter1.091]

Great video man deserves more bits ;)

[@sh6rpshot]

No more!! You already donated enough :)

[@AbsolutelyCasual]

I am so glad you made this video I just started playing and the only phrase I know so far is tunneling know the meaning of I should say

[@solarfastblur9459]

Amazing video, you should do a video on teachable perks

[@tyrantred2024]

respect is a good term too as a killer main this term is soo use on me xd Also killer pop the gen is when the killer use pim pam pum(my game is in español) on the gen

[@Unlogo]

it is called: "pop goes the weasel" or short just "pop"

[@jackthejolteon2658]

Only slang i can think of is Dead Zone where there is a part of the map with no pallets or walls anywhere Perhaps maybe DOH as well which means Dead on Hook but it's just another word from something similar in the vid Another word would be Tap Where you're said to Tap something. Meaning to just quickly work on something like a gen to stop having it regressing

[@sh6rpshot]

I definitely should’ve mentioned dead zone!

[@timbertam7668]

Got the game a month ago, been playing for 2 weeks straight with a friend, so this is definitively useful to me.

[@drip_chicken_]

i think this is the perfect video for beginers or people who have some experience and this video helped me good video keep up

[@sh6rpshot]

Thank you!!

[@talonunderscore]

god pallet, t&l, infinite, window fake, doubleback, spinning, flicks (jflick?), moonwalk, CJ, to name a few, a good video promo opportunity would've been to talk about clock callouts in the video, and already have a video about them up to link to, more watchtime for those interested in them, et cetera.

[@girlbosswesker]

I wouldn't call tunneling and camping toxic right off the bat in some cases, I feel like context is needed, but therefore this was a good vid. Kudos.

[@girlbosswesker]

@IsJibs Facecamping done at the start of the game is toxic, but if it's EGC I don't really care. It's the killer trying a last attempt to get a kill.

[@sevensatori1249]

There’s one term I don’t know: BM’ing. I know that it has something along the lines of messing around but that’s all I know

[@sh6rpshot]

BM = Bad manner so BMing means your doing something kinda toxic :)

[@mayhare8487]

As an alternate term to 3-Gen, my friends and I call it “Gen-locked.” In addition, we say “Dead on Hook” instead of Death Hook. In a SWF game, it’s usually said when someone needs to go for the save but you’ve already been hooked twice so you say, “I can’t go for the save, I’m dead on hook.” Or when the person dead on hook is being chased on a SWF game you can say that to your teammate so they could come body block or lure the killer away.

[@rejectedspace1091]

I also use dead on hook but I've never heard gen-locked and yet I absolutely love it

[@mayhare8487]

@@rejectedspace1091 lets make it a thing

[@boredgamesph4872]

How about shacks and main building. Im confuse with this.

[@hungreydoggo9442]

i remember one of my first dbd matches as killer i was called a toxic camping tunneler, and baby killer. i was like “dude wtf are you talking about?” i could totally see why lmao i thought hitting ppl on the hook made them die faster.

[@sh6rpshot]

LOL😂 we’ve all been there

[@peantbutter_2]

oh wow im a experienced dbd player and i definitely learned a few things

[@orangeh1923]

Body blocking happened to me in the game i was the last one and ace blocked the exit and was teaming with Myers and ended up dying himself 😫

[@harry_r6]

Damn every time I hook anyone I go and check nearest 3-4 gens, sometimes it takes me walking around half the map, and then I go back to hook and somehow often catch the exact unhooking moment, and then the saved guy fucking ALWAYS makes himself a free hit by running in a dead zone or sth, savers get out of sight instantly somehow. Feels like they do it on purpose so they can blame me for camping and tunelling after they lose

[@johnnyblaze8030]

I've gotten downed by a killer so many times when a gate was 99d. Whereas if it was already open, I could've Dead Harded away to escaping.

[@arandomhashbrown3756]

You forgot NOED: "NOED" it's an acronym of No One Escapes Death which is a Teachable Perk from The Nightmare (Freddy Kruger). This perks downs survivors with one hit when all the generators get repaired.

[@sh6rpshot]

You’re right about the acronym, but it’s a general perk not Freddy’s teachable :)

[@ponglenis9273]

Survivors on 5:45 be like „CAMMPERER“

[@darthdevinsith7239]

Snowball is my favorite strategy as killer like slugging a survivor and hit a survivor and down and hook him that would also get survivors off of gens and heal a survivor as predicted and also there's another strategy that I like to call "hit and run" what it does it chase a survivor and hit the survivor and give up the chase immediately witch that would at least get survivors off of gens and heal maybe

[@sh6rpshot]

It’s an awesome way to play!

[@themadgamer1217]

Question: Even if someone is up there in rank, if they start playing a killer that they’ve never played before (Ex. I went from playing a lot of Doctor to playing Trapper a lot), would I have been considered a “Baby Trapper”?

[@sh6rpshot]

If you’re not very good at the trapper then yes 😂

[@arian1115]

Should’ve mentioned respecting pallets :)

[@mayhare8487]

I’ve been playing for a year and I still don’t know this lol I would love to be educated cause one of my friends tried to show it to me during KYF and it made no sense

[@ellieberri]

4:55

[@ellieberri]

I think youre talking about this

[@ellieberri]

Backing up right before the survivor drops the pallet so that you dont get stunned

[@vamoscondanielo4476]

Great video sh6rpshot!

[@sh6rpshot]

Thank you!

[@slays85]

I already knew all of these but great video

[@sh6rpshot]

Thank you :)

[@knight3575]

I'd like to know what Zoning and Pathing is

[@TheSoulNinja26]

Is slugging considered toxic? I'm a killer main and have a friend that mains survivor and he thinks it's really toxic. I get tunneling and camping are but I don't really understand why slugging would be when it's basically just a win condition and it depends on the skill of the killer and the survivors as to whether they can even do it

[@LPlusRatioPlusFellOff]

I agree, slugging (imo) shouldn’t be seen as toxic

[@sleazyyeezy2238]

slugging isn’t toxic don’t let the community tell you otherwise

[@sh6rpshot]

I don’t think it is at all! Slugging is actually pretty hard to do, it’s high risk high reward

[@TheSoulNinja26]

Thanks guys, I'm newer to the game so I wasn't sure about it. I think he doesn't have that much experience as killer so he doesn't know how difficult it is to pull off but I'll try and explain it to him.

[@femkev.5245]

Slugging becomes toxic when the killer plays a game with the intention to slug from the start of the game and runs a build specifically to do it. That's when it turns into ground camping and it's either abandon your teammate to bleed out or the whole team goes down, which are both bad. That's not strategy, it's abusive behaviour and every killer I've ever played against who has run a slugging build is smug and toxic about it in the chat. When slugging is used as a strategy to prevent survivors from getting the hatch or to snowball as Oni or Myers, then it's fine in my opinion.

[@LPlusRatioPlusFellOff]

I’ve been trying to figure out if a “perfect game” means 32k bp or 4K with no gens done (killer) / escaping without being hooked (survivor)

[@yvng]

Both. A perfect game is where you get all 4 emblems in the post game lobby iridescent (red), gain 8000 BP in each of the 4 categories to total to 32k without any bonuses from offerings or perks (such as bbq) and get a 4k

[@thatoneguywhosjustthere1478]

A perfect game is where everybody has fun and doesn't want the game to end

[@TheOfficialGuiltyz]

Hey I was thinking we have added a lot of killers and survivors, potentially in the future can we have like a pirate map somewhat similar to the pirates of Caribbean

[@sh6rpshot]

That would be really cool!

[@Unlogo]

I think a sunk ship would be a bit better because it has potential of more space and stuff to cut of view

[@DaZoroMC]

So, it's toxic to facecamp but not genrush? Like, as a main killer myself (kinda new), the only real way to put pressure on the match (normally when two or three gens are already done w/ only 1 or 2 hooks is to facecamp. It generall forces the other survivors to try and unhook them and therefore, no gens are really made Ofc it sucks and is horrible in min 1 of the match, but, can you blame de killers when in 99% of the matches they get genrushed and then t-bagged by survivors at the exit gate?

[@natkobratko3198]

What are auras and offering

[@azathothxr9914]

I like how nothing the survivor does is toxic

[@someone-dv4yv]

I’m usually rank 10-13 for both killer and survivor, yet I still don’t know what I’m doing

[@Pizzl]

What is the term for "Feathering" means? my friends are confusing.

[@iahim0074]

respecting a palette is when the killer steps back from a palette that is about to be droped so that he doesn't get stunned

[@sh6rpshot]

Forgot about this term too!

[@RWBYpigz666]

Just sayin, those things dont ALWAYS have to be toxic and have to be done from time to time. For example a killer might facecamp to confirm a kill if they got steamrolled that trial

[@Modernshinobi12]

Still waiting for KWF (kill with friends)

[@vaportheowl]

You forgot Booping the Snoot! How can new players learn the best counter to the pig?

[@Fransens]

The one tunneling I will always approve of is Nemesis going for Jill and Leon. Exclusively in the best case scenario.

[@sh6rpshot]

Lore accurate 😂

[@elo305]

What is a backsave

[@alienair354]

thank you i needed this lol!

[@supermilkshinchan22]

I created a term called "hot potato" and of course it's when a survivor pass off the killer to another survivor

[@conorfrost6866]

You can also 99 with Ghostface ability

[@WolfWolfTheWolfIsComing]

Isn’t slugging toxic too?

[@A2Fast_2Furious]

Technically along with god loops but god pallet in killer shack.

[@sh6rpshot]

You’re right!

[@mindbreakergames5880]

I missed genrush a lot :(

[@drip_chicken_]

u could do a video explain techs like dumb tech cj tech window tech etc

[@sh6rpshot]

Not good enough to do them LOL

[@drip_chicken_]

@@sh6rpshot u can explain them at least

[@sh6rpshot]

Maybe!

[@GmoTheCat]

I keep getting the term useless thrown at me. Hmm wonder what it can mean

[@mauiwaui2746]

You forgot the term “crippling depression”

[@sh6rpshot]

A popular one in the community 😂

[@BigDamo53829]

tbh I find unintentional slugging more annoying that intentional slugging

[@ionut_1187]

I still don t know what is a cj tech:/

[@sleazyyeezy2238]

things required: flashlight, downed survivor on an undropped pallet drop the pallet on the killer for a stun and quickly vault the pallet after the stun is over, if they are spamming the break pallet button, it’ll force them to pick up the downed survivor, quickly vault the pallet back and flashlight save the killer

[@Daniel_Dickens]

"a baby survivor or killer" usually rank 20 and new to the game *Still gets called a baby surv/killer with 500 hours*

[@sh6rpshot]

Feels bad 😂

[@torn1216]

That's just people judging you by you're rank. Which btw doesn't matter cuz it literally resets every month.

[@TahmoneyX]

Sometimes I facecamp or tunnel survivors when they gen rush and teabag

[@midgetman2350]

deserved

[@TahmoneyX]

@@midgetman2350 Yeah they do deserve it

[@TahmoneyX]

@@midgetman2350 It’s a punishment for teabagging and gen rushing

[@gavinsharqawi8352]

Don't think tunneling is toxic all the time if the person is one hook away from dying im not gonna waste hitting 3 other survivors if i can get the one that's one hit away, although if you do it right away for no reason and do it for every survivor to kill them like that, that is kinda toxic

[@krabistheisopod1376]

"A fix you see in the PTB might not actually make it into the real game."

[@frankvish5917]

What does AFK survivor or killer means.??

[@sh6rpshot]

Away From Keyboard meaning they aren’t playing :)

[@gamesrock94]

You missed teabagging and flashlight clicking which are also super toxic hahahaha

[@sh6rpshot]

Tbag is a universal gamer thing but I could’ve added flashlight clicks 😂

[@PaladinPrem]

Ayyyy he did my recommendation

[@adamhernandez1041]

I hear it all the time playing with friends, what’s a 50/50?

[@sh6rpshot]

A scenario where it could go either way survivor wins or killer wins :) this isn’t just DBD though that’s a general term meaning it’s a 50% chance kind of like a coin flip!

[@jordanw2843]

Anyone who is wondering. "TOXIC " means it's a very good strategy to get kills

[@gabrote42]

We are missing Hook gymnastics, with the correct meaning from the wiki

[@viktor_si_atat1728]

1:56 i always give hatch to the worst survivor of the team, that only if they're not toxic

[@sh6rpshot]

Good killer :)

[@drewmon3292]

8:15 pause

[@PvzPlush]

What about body blocking a killer while he's carries a survivor

[@silly_billy-e1i]

8:10 tunneling is not always toxic Tunneling at 2 gens is ok

[@HIHOAstonvila]

Moonwalking : Myers be Like: Micheal Jackson time😎😎😎

[@MooseOne_Five]

thanks man!

[@olivergames7783]

Why do your perks look like that at 6:57

[@Cataclysimz]

He modded them to look like that. You can get icon packs for DbD on PC.

[@olivergames7783]

@@Cataclysimz Where do I go for that?

[@sh6rpshot]

I used DBD icon toolbox, but I made a tutorial on my channel called “How to get custom perks in DBD” :)

[@olivergames7783]

@@sh6rpshot Thanks my guy! Keep up the good work!

[@olivergames7783]

@@sh6rpshot im used to modding in a lot of other games so seeing your tutorial be just a 2 minute thing is a refreshing change of pace lol

[@Wiqoh_]

🔥🔥🔥

[@bengeance6329]

what about noed?

[@owenflanagan6592]

The perk “No One Escapes Death”

[@etourdie]

Your definition of blendette is more a definition of an immersed survivor, as a blendette is an immersed Claudette

[@EdwardC111]

Sad truth is, I encountered 80% of them. And the one i use the most is tunneling, because i always get picked. Makes me feel honored but it also makes me feel sad on the inside.