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1. Purposefully shooting or otherwise sabotaging your teammates in an online game.

2. In online gaming where one repeatedly killing the same individual or individuals over and over again, or camping their corpse to prevent them from retrieving it, or otherwise performing actions in a game to prevent the player from enjoying the game.

3. In online gaming, someone who takes pleasure in creating grief for an opponent via various "cheap" tactics.
I wish Jork would stop friggen griefing my guild mates everytime we log in and play.
griefing by [LK]Myrik December 10, 2004
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Greiging 

Getting utterly shitfaced, generally way too early in the night, so much so that you break into impromptu acapella show tunes, loudly, with a likely outcome of very limited recollection the next day.
Omg I was Greiging last night - and soo out of tune - but it was worth it. I’ll be Greiging again tonight!
Greiging by RicArdoardoardo May 26, 2018
Griefing has many different types, and occurs in many different games.

General Griefing:

1: Training, or angering hostile mobs to chase you at another player. This is named because the chain of mobs looks like a train.

2: Camping, or killing a player, then killing them again at their point of death or the spawn.

3: PVP stalking, or stalking a player and continuing to kill them. This is similar to camping, but occurs with the same player for a long period of time.

4: Chat spamming, or adding random text or profanity into the chat.

Specific Griefing:

Sandbox Games

5: Spleefing. This is very annoying if this occurs outside a designated spleef arena.

6: Walls. Self-explanatory, but must be constructed out of a high-level material that cannot be easily destroyed. This is also used to defend against griefers.

7: Encasement in walls. Normal walls, but surrounding a player so s/he can't get out.

FPS games

8: Sniping. This is normally not griefing, but is a form of the PVP stalker.

Targets for Griefers:

1. Minecraft. This game is a sandbox game, and is easily griefed. This game is particularly good for griefing as almost-indestructible structures can be built out of obsidian and used for walling and encasement.

2. World of Warcraft. This game is very popular, and thus griefed often.

3. Terraria. This game is very similar to Minecraft, as both were based off the game Infiniminer, and thus is griefed in very similar ways.
Steve: Finished my house!
(explosion, due to creepers)
Herobrine: Griefed you!
Herobrine was banned from the server.
Steve: pwned

Above, a common form of griefing in Minecraft.
griefing by RedstoneAurora April 3, 2013

Cargo griefing 

The act of destroying someone else’s cargo in gta online
Although told by the game itself cargo griefing is wrong and should not be done!
Cargo griefing by THATBOI#88 August 11, 2020

Pussy griefing 

When you have rough sex with women to stretch their vagina for the sake of ruining another mans pleasure
I absolutely ruined this ladys pussy last night just to ruin the pleasure for the next man that has sex with her and I call that pussy griefing
Pussy griefing by anonymous August 7, 2021

Griefing a Griefer 

Teaching a griefer a.k.a. a bitch his lesson and putting him in his place.
While I was just minding my own business and picking up some herbs, this fucking griefer came out of nowhere and killed me. Then, I killed him 5 times and I'm going to kill him until he parlays or leaves the session, or till I get bored because I am griefing a griefer!
Griefing a Griefer by ELVIS1975T February 28, 2020
Griefing can refer to multiple definitions, but is most commonly used in Minecraft and some other video games.

1. Griefing is the act of irritating and angering people in video games through the use of destruction, construction, or social engineering.
2. In forums to harass by all means: stalking, impersonation, VPN, etc. with the intent to ban, make the user uncomfortable, and etc.
3. (Chiefly in Minecraft) Griefing is when a NPC comes up and destroys your creation, mainly a creeper. Can be turned off using /gamerule mobgriefing false when cheats are enabled.
Guy goes on online thread to post offensive comment. Girl reads it.
Girl responds: You griefer!
Girl reports to admin for griefing post.
Griefing by DieselDorky16 November 5, 2018