kneecap

A metaphor for when you do something to sabotage somethings potential.

Farming using only clones kneecaps a crops ability to adapt to survive new diseases.

snowballing

When an advantage causes that advantage to grow increasingly larger, typically with no hope of stopping it.

Bottom lane fed 5 times, and now Yi is snowballing out of control.

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nerdaphernalia

Any object or gadget that would immediately mark a person as being a nerd.

I knew Steve wasn't a jock, his room was full of nerdaphernalia.