Your jnAccount: Neopian Dictionary
Welcome to the Neopian Dictionary! Here, you can find definitions and explanations for all those strange Neopian words that have been puzzling you. Some of the words here were invented by the Neopets Team; others were created by players and have stuck around because they're so useful. From Meepits to MPETs and from RI to restocking, we're here to explain them all!
There are 91 matching terms.
9/9/09 Draik
[naɪn naɪn oʊ naɪn dɹɛɪk] - noun
A Draik that was created during a particular glitch a few years ago, which allowed them to be accessed through the normal pet-creation form rather than the usual hatching method. It's estimated that a few hundred of these Draiks were released into Neopia before the Neopets Team fixed the bug.
Example Usage:
"Oh, come on! I could never buy one of those! He's a 9/9/09 Draik."
See Also: Limited and Restricted Pets
Category: Technical Stuff
ABer
[ɛɪbiːəɹ] - noun
Abbreviation for "autobuyer".
(1) A computer program that buys items from the Neopian shops for you, without your having to click or type. Using one of these is very much against the rules and grounds for an immediate freezing.
(2) A person who uses such a program.
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Category: Technical Stuff
Appeal Form
[ə'piːl fɔːm] - noun
The form that must be sent to the Neopets Team in order to recover a mistakenly frozen account.
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Category: Technical Stuff
Autobuyer
['ɔːtoʊbaɪjə ] - noun
(1) A computer program that buys items from the Neopian shops for you, without your having to click or type. Using one of these is very much against the rules and grounds for an immediate freezing.
(2) A person who uses such a program.
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Category: Technical Stuff
Beta
['biːtə] - noun
The testing stage a new feature or product goes through before it is certified as suitably un-glitchy to release properly. Members of the public may be asked to help with the testing.
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Category: Technical Stuff
Bug Report
[bʌg ɹɪ'pɔːt] - noun
A form that can be sent to TNT describing a technical problem you're having with the site. To access it, go to Help and click Submit a Ticket, then choose Bug Report from the dropdown menu.
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Category: Technical Stuff
CG
[siːdʒiː] - verb
To use a special script called a "Cookie Grabber" to trick someone's web browser into sending you its stored data. While not as common or easy as it used to be, this is a well-known means of accessing other people's accounts illegally.
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See Also: Account Security
Category: Technical Stuff
CGer
['siː'dʒiːəɹ] - noun
Abbreviation of "Cookie Grabber". A special type of script, hidden in a webpage, that tricks your computer into sending its "cookies", or stored website data, to an outside source. Web pages with cookie grabbers are often set up by malicious users who want to be able to access others' accounts, and are frequently disguised as giveaways or pages of "secrets".
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See Also: Account Security
Category: Technical Stuff
Cookie
['kʊkiː] - noun
A piece of data stored on your computer that enables the site to remember details such as when you logged in and with what username and password.
(There is or was also a member of the Neopets Team named Cookie, who is unconnected to this definition.)
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Category: Technical Stuff
Cookie Grabber
['kʊkiː 'gɹæbəɹ] - noun
A special type of script, hidden in a webpage, that tricks your computer into sending its "cookies", or stored website data, to an outside source. Web pages with cookie grabbers are often set up by malicious users who want to be able to access others' accounts, and are frequently disguised as giveaways or pages of "secrets".
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See Also: Account Security
Category: Technical Stuff
COPPA
['kɒpə] - noun
An American real-world law, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, that deals with what sort of information younger users can and can't share online. This law is the reason why Neopets places so many restrictions on young players that don't apply to anyone else.
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Category: Technical Stuff
CSS
[siːɛsɛs] - noun
Short for 'Cascading Style Sheets'. A web language that, when used alongside HTML, allows you to customise and enhance user-editable areas of the site. These include lookups, user shops and petpages.
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Category: Technical Stuff
Description
[dɪs'kɹɪpʃən] - noun
The user-editable text that appears on a Neopet's lookup. Usually used to introduce people to the pet's imagined personality and/or nickname, if he or she has one. There is a strict character limit.
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Category: Technical Stuff
DFM
['diːɛfɛm] - adjective
Abbreviation for the phrase "down for maintenance". Although individual games and features can and do get taken down, this phrase is most often used to refer to times when the entire Neopets site is offline and being fixed. The message "Neopets is Down For Maintenance" appears during such times, along with an image of a red Pteri.
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Category: Technical Stuff
Fake Login Page
[fɛɪk 'lɒgɪn pɛɪdʒ] - noun
A website that has been designed to look as much like Neopets as possible, in the hope that people will mistake it for the real thing and enter their usernames and passwords to try and log in. The usernames and passwords will then be sent to the owner of the site.
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See Also: Account Safety
Category: Technical Stuff
Flash
[flæʃ] - noun
The now defunct Adobe Flash Player browser plugin. Flash was a tool that let your computer run programs created with Adobe Flash. If you didn't have it, you weren't able to see several important things on Neopets, such as most games, plot comics, and newer maps of countries like Faerieland and the Haunted Woods. The plugin, and Flash on the web in general, was disabled in January 2021. Since then, TNT has been working on converting various Flash-based features to newer web technologies.
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Category: Technical Stuff
Flash Map
[flæʃ mæp] - noun
An image of a Neopian country or city that was displayed using the Adobe Flash plug-in, as opposed to being a normal image file (such as JPEG or GIF). Most (but not all) Flash maps took advantage of this to include animation or some kind of mouse over effect. Adobe Flash was discontinued in January 2021, and TNT has been working on converting all Flash maps to newer web technologies.
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Category: Technical Stuff
Frozen
['fɹoʊzən] - adjective
(1) Of a user; blocked from accessing the site.
(2) Of an account; unable to be logged into, either as a punishment or for security.
Example Usage:
(2) "My main account is frozen because a scammer got my password."
Category: Technical Stuff
Fun Image
[fʌn 'ɪmɪdʒ] - noun
A graphic, usually animated, created by the Neopets Team's artists for people to use on their web pages.
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See Also: Fun Images at Dr. Sloth's Image Emporium
Category: Technical Stuff
Glendale
['glɛndeɪl] - noun
The city, in real-world southern California, where the Neopets Team work. Often used as shorthand for the Neopets, Inc. headquarters.
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Category: Technical Stuff
Glitch
[glɪtʃ] - noun
An error or technical problem with the site.
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Category: Technical Stuff
Glitched
[glɪtʃt] - adjective
Displaying or working improperly due to errors and technical problems with the site.
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Category: Technical Stuff
Grandfather
['gɹændfaːðə] - verb
To make an exception to the usual site rules for a player because an important part of their account or Neopian identity, while breaking one or more rules, was created before those rules came into effect.
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Category: Technical Stuff
HTML
[ɛɪtʃtːɛmɛl] - noun
Abbreviation for "Hypertext Markup Language". The basic web language used to create and customise user-editable pages, such as petpages, userlookups and shops.
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Category: Technical Stuff
Ice
[aɪst] - verb
A casual term for "freeze". To lock someone out of the site, usually due to persistently having broken the rules.
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Category: Technical Stuff
Iceland
['aɪslænd] - noun
Nothing to do with the European country. A fan-made term for the space on the Neopets servers where frozen accounts are kept.
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Category: Technical Stuff
JR
[dʒɛɪaː] - verb
To make a regular Neopets account into an account suitable for a player under the age of thirteen -- that is, to remove the ability to Neomail, edit pages, and post on the Neoboards. The Neopets Team will do this if they have reason to believe a player is under thirteen and lied about their age when signing up.
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Category: Technical Stuff
JS
['dʒɛɪɛs] - noun
Abbreviation for "JumpStart". Neopets' parent company since Year Sixteen; a video game company well-known for its range of educational games.
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Category: Technical Stuff
JumpStart
['dʒʌmpstaːt] - noun
The new parent company of Neopets since Year Sixteen. A video game company best known for their popular educational games.
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Category: Technical Stuff
Lag
[læg] - noun, verb
(1) Delays and slowness caused either by the player's slow computer, or by unusually high stress on the Neopets servers.
(2) To run slowly, requiring users to wait longer than usual and/or repeat an action several times in order to get results.
Example Usage:
(2) "The site is lagging so much this weekend. This is my third try at actually adding a post to this thread!"
Category: Technical Stuff
