Dlc Definition & Meaning

American

Etymology

Examples

DLC American

abbreviation

1. downloadable content: additional content that can be purchased online and added on to a video game, as to enhance its features.

   If you buy the DLC, you’ll have access to the new weapon packs.

   I had more fun playing the DLC than the game itself.

Etymology

Origin of DLC

First recorded in 2000–05

Example Sentences

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The awards do have strict eligibility rules around remakes and remasters of previously released games, and downloadable content, or DLC, which expands on an existing title.

From BBC

"With every single DLC, it'll be a moment for us to update, improve and make sure that the experience is as good as it can be," he says.

From BBC

“Escape Academy: The Complete Edition” Exclusively for Nintendo Switch, this new combo includes the award-winning base escape room game plus two DLC expansions, “Escape from Anti-Escape Island” and “Escape from the Past,” for play alone or in an online co-op.

From Seattle Times

But DLC's other international developments, which they call "worlds", are causing concern for the protest group, Protect Loch Tay.

From BBC

DLC describes them as "private residential club communities," but is emphatic Taymouth will not be a gated community.

From BBC

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