Being housed

Being at your current population cap. To increase it, you have to build houses

Being pop capped

Being at the match's total population limit

Laming

Deliberately hurting your opponent's economy, especially in the early stages of a game by e.g. stealing/killing their sheep

DauT castle

A castle getting destroyed that either unfinished or freshly built. Named after pro player DauT.

xx into yy

The strategy/build order you follow that includes the usage of two unit types, e.g. Scouts into Knights

Being idle

Units/Production buildings not being tasked to do anything at the moment

xx-line

A base unit + its upgrades. E.g. the Archer or militia line

Quick wall

As the name suggests, quickly building up walls to keep enemy units away. Commonly used with Palisades and Houses

Luring

Using a villager to attack a wild animal with more food than ususal (e.g. Boar) in order to make it follow the villager to the Town Center

Trash unit

A unit that costs no gold thus being a good option in late game

Force drop-off

Ordering villagers to quickly drop their resources into the nearest building and immediately start to work again. Especially useful in early game when gathering food from boars since it takes a long time for the villager to drop off the food by itself. Also required for civilizations like the Chinese and Aztecs.

Stop micro

Microing military units with the stop command (Default Hotkey: G)

Split micro

Switching between Line and Flank formation to dodge projectiles, typically Onager shots

Counter unit

A unit which is especially strong vs. another unit. Common counters: Spearman → Cavalry / Skirmisher → Archer

Floating resources

To have unused resources, usually hoarding them without spending

Deer pushing

A technique to make a deer move towards your own base by sending a scout behind said deer

Trush

Tower rush - a strategy typically used by Koreans which consists of sending your villagers towards the enemy and building towers inside the base

Douche

Deleting your Town Center in the early stage of a game and rebuild it near the opponent's base. This strategy is typically used by the Persians.

Fast Castle

Advancing to Feudal Age with 24+ villagers being split up on Wood, Food and Gold in order to "skip" that Age to go to Castle Age as quick as possible. There are also very tight versions such as the Steppe Lancer Rush (aka. Morley Rush) where you play 22+2.

xx+y (e.g.) 22+2

The amount of villagers you make in each age before advancing. In above mentioned example, you make 22 villagers in Dark Age, followed by another 2 in Feudal Age

Drush

Dark Age rush. Attacking your opponent in Dark Age with militia. The goal isn't neccesarily to finish your opponent but rather to distract them to buy yourself time.

Mush

Monk rush. Overwhelming your opponent by using many Monks, usually with Aztecs.

Turtling

Super defensive strategy which consists of walling yourself in

Booming

Being fully focused on your economy and eventually launching an attack in later stages of a game. Goes hand in hand with Turtling.

Infantry

Foot soliders, typically divided into melee and ranged units. Please note that the ingame technology tree strictly refers to melee units as "Infantry" while ranged units are refered to as "Archers".

Cavarly

Mounted and thus highly-mobile units, typically divided into melee (Scouts, Knights) and ranged cavalry (Cavalry Archer)

Siege

Units mainly with the purpose to destroy other buildings like rams and trebuchets but also anti-infantry units such as Scorpions and Mangonels

Naval

Ships

Rax

Barracks

Kts

Knights

Skirms

Skirmisher

FU

Fully upgraded

FC

Fast Castle

Cav

Cavalry

TC

Town Center

1

Yes

2

No

11

Laughter. Adding multiple 1's is the equivalent to ROFL or LOL

14

Start the game already. Also used with a question mark to ask whether someone's up for a game

105

You can resign again

Pocket

When playing a 3v3 or 4v4, these are players that are placed between the outer players

Flank

When playing a 3v3 or 4v4, these are players that are placed at the outer starting positions

Carry

Keeping care of weaker players

LEL

Low Elo Legend, usually players below 1000 Elo, also an ongoing series by T90

ThxDE

Used when AoE 2 DE isn't working (again)

Hun war

Two players playing against each other with huns. Was very popular during the days of The Conquerors, AoE 2's first expansion