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DLC

American

abbreviation

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

From BBC • Aug. 23, 2023

This took place alongside a gradual recruitment of DLC figures into the D.C. lobbying apparatus.

From Slate • Jul. 4, 2023

I assume that the more successful the game is among buyers, the more likely DLC content is added, which is always a plus.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2022

The company has committed to delivering new content in the future, including paid story DLC that could be comparable in scope to Splatoon 2’s Octo Expansion.

From The Verge • Aug. 24, 2022

DLC 40 Reid, Ira De A. Negro youth, their social and economic backgrounds; a selected bibliography of unpublished studies, 1900-1938.

From The Negro in the United States; a selected bibliography. Compiled by Dorothy B. Porter by Porter, Dorothy B.

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