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Often used with mmorpgs. It involves players banding together to succeed at a common goal- such as taking over territory, killing an opposing faction, or most commonly killing big scary internet monsters that drop coveted items.

It can be used as a noun or verb, noun referring a specific event, and in verbage, the act of embarking on that event.

A: We've scheduled a Black Temple raid tonight. You coming?
B: I can't raid, I gotta get laid!
A: No epix or dkp for you!

Redundant Array of Independant (or Inexpensive) Disks.

There are several configurations of RAID.

Raid 0 = stripping with no redundancy
Raid 1 = mirror
Raid 5 = stripping across many drives with redundancy

There are many other configurations as well

Our new Dell server came with a RAID system.

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A raid is when a bunch of people who play a game too much, get together to play the game some more. Because they have to work together to kill the biggest bosses.

A: What's going on, is like the whole world noobified, like the exact same time?
B: It's my guild, we are doing a raid.

when you are changing for soccer and a teacher comes and sprays you with febreeze over and over, or pelts wet paper towels at you. It is somewhat like rape

Are you going to raid us today?

(in clan games) attacks on the base of a hostile clan. other words include: raid (verb), raiding, raided

We did a raid on this huge clan and got some awesome loot out of it!

To attack a strong enemy by brute force (Warcraft III). Usually a raid involves sending an overwhelming amount of troops into an area in the hope that the greater number of troops will be able to overtake the enemy or at least severely damage their ability to fight.
See also Zurg

It can also be used in the non traditional way to describe accomplishing a challenging task such traveling with a group of coworkers to an area known to have free donuts or a group of males traveling to an area where a high percent of females are know to be present.

Raid is also a powerful bug spray that can be used to kill such things as ants and bees.

Raid also is an acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. It is used to describe the setup of one’s hard drives.

Example 1:
A: Hurry up! We have to RAID this guy’s base before he becomes a level 7.

Example 2:
A: Hey I heard some customers were in today. Do you want to RAID the break room to see if there are any free donuts left over?

Example 3:
A: John, get the RAID. There are some ants on the patio.

Example 4:
A: My computer uses a RAID. It’s way fast.