The words the community uses that the game never prints: unicum, seal clubbing, tomato, HE spam and friends.
An automated or absent player, and the accusation thrown at anyone who plays like one.
Winning a battle that the team was losing, through one player's damage and decisions.
A large-caliber, low-velocity gun firing high explosive, which deals damage to almost anything without needing to penetrate.
Accumulating damage from a safe position, which raises personal statistics without necessarily helping the team win.
Several players shooting the same target at once, which removes it from the battle before it can trade back.
Most of a team driving to the same flank at once, leaving the rest of the map undefended.
A player in the public queue, used to distinguish random battles from organised clan play.
The boundary of the map behind each team's spawn, and by extension the habit of playing pressed against it.
The randomness built into damage, penetration and shell placement, and the standard explanation for any shot that went wrong.
An experienced player farming low tiers, where the opposition is mostly people still learning the game.
Playing a vehicle deliberately to reach the third Mark of Excellence, which requires sustaining top-five-percent combined damage on it.
A player whose rating sits in the red band, at the bottom of the colour scale.
A player in the top few percent of the server, named for the purple band their rating colour falls into.
The mod that popularised showing every player's rating in the battle loading screen, and the origin of the colour scale everyone uses.
Charging into a position with no support and no way back, usually ending in a fast death and occasionally in a won flank.