kill-to-death ratio

English

Noun

kill-to-death ratio (countable and uncountable, plural kill-to-death ratios)

1. (video games) In multiplayer fighting and shooting video games, the number of kills a player scores divided by the number of deaths.
   • 2019, John Paul Wallis, Jay Mechling, “Playing Video Games”, in PTSD and Folk Therapy: Everyday Practices of American Masculinity in the Combat Zone, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 93:

     While “dying” in a video game is not much of a consequence itself, most game types in FPS involve respawning, allowing players repeatedly to throw themselves back into the battle. Even a highly skilled player with thousands of hours in online multiplayer matches will have a kill-to-death ratio hovering around 2.00 and will have witnessed several thousand deaths of his avatar.

Synonyms

• kill-death ratio, K/D ratio, K/D, KDR