So I was curious about how Ganking got its named so I googled it....

YoungFarmer·5/22/2015, 1:08:41 AM·1 votes·521 views

I looked up Gank in the Dictionary and it means: Verb to steal

gank2 verb to show disrespect for; to hurt another's feelings

gank3 noun fake crack cocaine

so by looking at this I came to wonder how a slang word for fake cocaine came to be a word that meant leaving your lane/jungle to ambush enemy players.... can someone help me?

4 Comments

Alljoy5/22/2015, 2:47:12 AM1 votes

Because the other two meanings include theft and disrespect.

Ÿun5/22/2015, 8:27:03 AM1 votes

I'm not sure myself, but maybe it's from the words "gang" and "flank" put together.

rtbf2034307785/22/2015, 5:11:14 PM1 votes

Gank was first used in DOTA for anyone who can remember that far back. The original game......too bad blizzard never could get that going properly. That was a game.