Skip to main content
Rentware was a term coined in the days following the release of Spore, a critically acclaimed A title that shipped with SecuROM, a copyright protection program that limits what you can do with a game you purchase and may potentially harm your computer.

The term rentware describes the new direction the PC market has been going in, where buying a game does not mean you are actually purchasing a video game anymore, but more so the rights to play the game--as long as you are allowed to. For instance, if you do not get online every ten days for the game Spore, the game will then lock itself out and you will be prevented from playing it until reactivated, thus leaving you with a $50 coaster.
Dude 1: Hey man I just bought BioShock but I've used up my three activations and now I can't play the game anymore.

Dude 2: What did you expect from rentware? At least you now have a coaster.
Rentware by Agamemnon582bc October 24, 2008
Related Words

realtwhore 

Most real estate agents. They are salesman, who make money only when people buy and sell real estate, but they will try to tell you that they are your friend, helping you to get your little piece of the American Dream.
someone: My agent said that now is a great time to buy!
someone else: Umm, of course he did. He's a realtwhore.
realtwhore by iceweasel September 10, 2009

Repwhore 

A repwhore (correct English: reputation whore) is a whore who likes the reputation of a online forum and thus asks everybody to give him or her "rep" (short for reputation).

When asking *cough* begging *cough* for reputation, most of the time you will get a derep (correct English: negative reputation) unless you are cool and/or a oldfag or maybe any other reason.

Noobs might beg for reputation the whole time, but it's best for you and me to ignore this person or (if possible) give him or her a negative reputation (a.k.a.: derep) because that is what they hate most.
In good situations these noobs might even kill themselves which will make the world a little better.
Noob: oMg gib m3 repz0rs~!

Oldfag/Cool person: Give me rep or you won't get account, because I am a repwhore.

Other person: Give me rep please
Repwhore by Penrue March 8, 2008

ReckWhore 

A promiscuous woman who doesnt keep herself in the best of shape
Craig: You seen Syd lately? Sleeping with all those men
Rory: Yeah what a wreck, such a whore
Craig: Could even say Syd is a ReckWhore
ReckWhore by LudicrousLocomotive October 25, 2022

mentwhore 

A prostitute that you consider a role model.
PurpleLip has been great mentwhore during my sabbatical from work - I've learned so much about 82nd Avenue and cheap drugstore lipstick!
mentwhore by Marlotta September 6, 2009
When you have sex with a whore and she dies or turns into a zombie and you have sex with her while she's dead or a zombie.
*During zombie apocalypse* Bill: hey Francis that zombie you just killed I made her a rewhore. Francis: Really when? Bill: When you and Louis were healing up Zoey I saw her and broke her legs and had a quicky, because before the apocalypse I fucked her in the back of my van and she was gooooood.
rewhore by Uranium Bullets March 31, 2010