NPC

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Noun

NPC

1. (RPG, video games) Initialism of non-player character (or non-playable character)
2. (medicine, mostly, attributive) Initialism of no patient care
3. Initialism of Niemann-Pick disease type C

Proper noun

1. (Philippines) Initialism of w:National Power Corporation
2. (Philippines) Initialism of w:National Privacy Commission
3. (sports) Initialism of National Paralympic Committee
4. (Philippines) Initialism of w:Nationalist People's Coalition
5. (China) Initialism of w:National People's Congress

Related terms

• IPC International Paralympic Committee
• NOC National Olympic Committee

Verb

1. (intransitive) To act as an NPC in a game.

   • All characters wish to submit to the game must be either netural or good even though the group will have to interact with evil beings as well. To preserve the group from being totally dark and paranoid, I will NPC the evil characters.

   • 2012, Wreck-It Ralph (movie)

     [in a deleted scene, one of the signs used by the homeless Q*bert gang reads as follows]

     "will npc in fps 4 food!"

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