1. A face-saving insult used by someone who is feeling inadequate. Basically accuses anyone who is better than them at anything of putting in effort. Doubles as an excuse for sucking by implying lack of effort on the speaker's part.
2. An insult blatantly misused by 13-year-old kiddies in online gaming who, ironically, try very hard to win themselves and take it too seriously when they lose.
3. Someone who tries too hard to fit in. Easy to spot online because of their constant use of trendy internet slang such as "fail", "cool story bro", and "tryhard".
4. An Urban Dictionary writer that submits overly-long definitions for pointless phrases trying to get recogniton.
1. Guy mopping the bathroom at Subway: "All those people from my high school that got into Princeton and MIT, they're just a bunch of fucking tryhards."
2. Kid that just got utterly humiliated in Starcraft 2: "w/e u fuckin tryhard hacker n00bz lol i pwn u next time k 1v1 me NOW!!!11"
3. That one douchebag that always brags about his 2500 Facebook friends: "o hai guys dat 1 nig hes a fuckin tryhard im all like yea i get blazed all the time and shit and i fuck bitches and got all these friends, then hes like dude i dont fucking care stop sending requests to me i dont know you, and i was all like o rly, cool story bro. yeah i fuckin pwned that fail loser tryhard. lol, shit man, im so cool. srsly, pay attention to me plz! guys? anyone?!"
4. See above.
A Tryhard is someone who trys too hard to be included in a group of people.
Someone that will copy anything someone else does / something other people in a group do, listen to, act like, or look like, To become accepted in the group.
Alec is such a tryhard, all of the bands he listens to, he gets off us, he can't get his own life.
A insult mostly used in gaming directed at an individual who is actually trying to win a game. This insult is mostly seen if FPS, or First-Person Shooters, such as Call of Duty, Halo, Team Fortress 2, and Overwatch.
''Oh my god, this fucking cunt is being a tryhard, go get a life you failed abortion!''
Someone who makes a great effort to appear to be something they are not.
A tryhard may try to be clever, edgy, deep, wealthy, intellectual, religious, perfect, etc.
Someone who is usually-but not necessarily-average at something, and pages themselves to and/or past their personal limits to be "good"at what they're doing. This almost always leads to them being worse or failing.
Person 1: "She's a great singer, but she pushes herself to hard. She'd be better if she pulled back a bit."
Person 2: "Yeah, she's really a tryhard."
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Someone who try's extremely hard. Especially at sports or video games.
Carter Brooks got dark matter in call of duty black ops 3 in less than a month, therefore he is a Tryhard .
When someone tries harder than necessary; someone who always tried hard.