Frogger

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A player who skillfully avoids dangers in either a game or reality A label for someone navigating traffic or obstacles with high risk A designation for a type of game focused on careful traversal across dangerous environments
2. An individual controlling a character in a classic arcade game where the goal is to cross hazardous paths ; a person who maneuvers through heavy traffic safely on foot ; a type of video game centered on guiding a character across roads and rivers without collisions
3. Someone playing the vintage electronic game focused on jumping over obstacles ; one who carefully crosses streets filled with moving vehicles ; a game requiring skillful navigation of a character through various dangers to reach a target

Etymology: The noun "frogger" is a straightforward formation: the game came first, and the player's name followed from it. Frogger was an arcade game released in 1981 and developed by Konami, in which the player guides frogs across a busy road and other hazards toward their home spaces. Anyone who played it became a frogger, the word taking its shape from the game's title. The source also suggests a route through the older word "frog" with the agent suffix "-er", meaning someone who does a thing, as in "rower" or "singer". The two explanations are not competing. The game was named for its frogs, and the player's noun is simply the game's title turned into a person who plays it. A reader who knows the arcade sense of the word will find nothing more hidden in it than that.