A player type in TF2 that is mainly a scout, soldier, or demo, that takes the game way too seriously.
Either a streamer with an expensive setup (rare) or a 12-year old scout sweat who stole his mom's credit card (almost always).
Characteristics:
Killing Friendlies
An embarrassing amount of hours on the game
Hyper-expensive unusuals

This is mainly used in a negative connotation against friendly killers.
Endangered Spycrab: wow look at this tryhard killing all the friendlies and taunting
Xx_DABESTSCOUT_xX: THIS IS HOW THE GAME IS MEANT TO BE PLAYED YOU RETARDS
Endangered Spycrab: You are aware this is a 2Fort match.
by 2011 Honda Odyessy January 23, 2022
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A person who tries way to hard in a game which often leads to the anger of other people.
“Damn! Elliott, why do you have to be such a tryhard!!”
by Jooderino October 14, 2018
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Someone who is especially good or talented at something and gets called by friends
Guy 1: Gotcha!
Guy 2: ugh why are you so tryhard!
by KikoTheWolfPup January 18, 2019
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Someone who thinks they are good at a game but the only reason they are is no one told them what “casual” meant
Oh dude, this guys a frickintryhard!
by pejrejfesekdc msqaz , March 19, 2019
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GTA Online players who often use expensive items they bought with their mom's credit card to blow up normal GTA Online players who have not provoked them.
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A person who puts lot of effort into everything they do just so they can impress girls and have gamer tags that start with "Exceed" or is the name of sauces.
Look! Exceed is tryharding again.
Did you see Wasabe? He is such a tryhard!
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