Dungeons & Dragoner

English

Alternative forms

• Dungeons and Dragoner

Etymology

From Dungeons & Dragons +‎ -er.

Noun

Dungeons & Dragoner (plural Dungeons & Dragoners)

1. (rare) A player of the fantasy tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons.
   • 1982, William Kotzwinkle, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, London: Sphere Books Limited, →ISBN, page 235:

     And looking out from the Lookout were the Dungeons & Dragoners he’d phoned a half hour earlier.

   • 2007, Jennifer Blowdryer, “Style Your Own Damn Self”, in Michelle Tea, editor, It’s So You: 35 Women Write About Personal Expression Through Fashion and Style, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 270:

     This disgusted the other students, all of them: those engaged in African American pride, the brainiacs from decent homes, even the burnouts, who shared a tiny patch of brownish lawn with the Dungeons & Dragoners.

   • 2008, Edward B. Fiske, Robert Logue, the Fiske Guide to Colleges staff, Fiske Guide to Colleges 2008, twenty-fourth edition, Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 129:

     “Students here cover a spectrum,” muses a senior, including “preppy pop-collars, hardcore hippies, emo punk rockers, jocks, semi-goths, and Dungeons & Dragoners.”

Synonyms

• D&Der