DLC

American  

abbreviation

1. 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.

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Etymology

Origin of DLC

First recorded in 2000–05

Example Sentences

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

From Slate • Jul. 4, 2023

The “Left Behind” DLC “gave a moment of fun in a really heavy world,” said Ashley Johnson, who portrays Ellie in “The Last of Us” games.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2023

Earlier this year, CD Projekt Red informed us that new DLC would be forthcoming but not until 2023.

From The Verge • Sep. 6, 2022

Mario Kart 8's initial upgrade to Deluxe featured various additions, for example a further five playable characters and now the subsequent DLC release.

From BBC • Aug. 26, 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DLC 40 Reid, Ira De A. Negro youth, their social and economic backgrounds; a selected bibliography of unpublished studies, 1900-1938.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.