Active tense of larp. Wilful self delusion in the service of strong egoic compulsions. The wilful desire to attribute imagined context to a situation or activity in order to live out romanticised situations and roles for egoic fulfilment.

i.e. Q, the ultimate larp congregation. Modus operandi, the purposeful suspension of critical thinking in order to open up reality to being much more interesting than it really is. Attributing deeper meaning to randomness and assuming there is a greater order or conspiracy at play that can account for why life's events aren't unfolding the way you expect them to. Also see Cope, Copium, Hope, Hopium
John larps hard, he spends hours hammering away in the terminal rather than using the UI to complete a task immediately, but at least it makes him feel like a hacker.
by cytochrome450 October 31, 2022
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A person who pretends to be someone they're not. Originated from live action role playing and how people that partake in that pretend to be characters of a story or real historical event
"Aaron White is a larp"
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Completing meaningless tasks which provide solely artificial (and no real-world) value. Jumping through hoops put there for the sake of it as opposed to achieve anything.
Person 1: "On my degree course I learned next to nothing useful, I felt like all I had to do was larp to meet a large word count."

Person 2: "Same here, my final assignment was just me larping for 10,000 words."
by DaCibe October 13, 2022
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Basically a Larp is somewhat unfavorable or minorly inconveniencing.
Bob: Dude, the Queen of England died yesterday.

Jeff: That’s a massive Larp, dude. Want to play smash?
by SlothMan2714 October 6, 2019
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this is liz’s new nickname by me and they run the account @breakupbrock on twitter, she also cant stick to one layout :D
wow dude! larp is the sweetest human!
by cheeseybuckets October 28, 2020
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Someone who will overdo something, example being a roleplay, and then they feel extremely proud of it, even though it turned into a massive mess, the people who created the mess wouldn't care, as they feel they had accomplished something out of that
example
"Bro shut the literal fuck up you LARPer"
or
"Man, you didn't have to LARP the whole situation"
by Brazilian Redneck October 20, 2020
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Your a larp, Your larpin as someone.
Michael: IM REPPING O BLOCK SON
Jordan: SON U LARPIN O BLOCK COME RUN MY AFK CHECK UR TRAPPED
Michael: BET HOLD ON LET ME TURN ON MY APO SETTINGS
Jordan: AII MY SON LETS RUN 90 HOURS
Michael: Slumped at 8 hours
Jordan: YEP SON LOOK AT MY 1650045 STREAMABLE CLIPS SON U FOLDED
by GODFATHERXUX September 28, 2022
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