MOBA

American  

[moh-buh] / ˈmoʊ bə /

noun

Digital Technology.

1. multiplayer online battle arena: a genre of online real-time strategy video games in which two teams of characters compete head-to-head with the goals of protecting their home base and destroying the towers, turrets, or other structures of the opposing team’s stronghold (often used attributively).

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Etymology

Origin of MOBA

First recorded in 2010–15

Example Sentences

The competition features five PC games and two mobile games, covering both multiplayer online battle arena, or MOBA, and single-player genres.

From Washington Times • Sep. 23, 2023

It chronicles how a cutting-edge team of bots lost to a team of professional humans at a tournament of Dota 2, an insanely complicated video game known as a MOBA.

From The Verge • Aug. 29, 2018

Called a “multiplayer online battle arena,” or MOBA, League is free to download and ties together elements from a wide range of genres, mostly role-playing and strategy.

From Time • Oct. 25, 2016

That includes admission to the theater’s basement attraction, MOBA, or the Museum of Bad Art, a collection of rummage store paintings cleverly named and captioned.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2014

The entire playing experience is far more compact than a PC MOBA, which in turn allows the whole map to fit easily on the on-screen mini-map, making for simpler navigation.

From Forbes • Dec. 11, 2012