Meaning

4 senses

  1. (slang, uncountable)Aggravation; bother.

    (informal British usage) aggravation or aggression

  2. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, slang, uncountable)Aggressive behaviour; loud, intimidating behaviour that convincingly threatens violence without necessarily actually becoming violent.

    Move along, lads; we don't want any aggro.

  3. (slang, uncountable)A measure of a player's level of belligerence.

  4. (slang, uncountable)Hostile attention from an enemy.

    You just pulled aggro off the tank and wiped the raid.

Origin

From a clipping of aggravation + -o (diminutive suffix), influenced by aggressive.

From a clipping of aggravation + -o (diminutive suffix), influenced by aggressive.

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Word family

2 related words
Derivedaggrotechpaggro

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
aggressivelyB2aggressivenessaggressoraggrieveaghastC2agileC2agilely

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