A transparent combination of lore, meaning a body of background knowledge or stories, and dump, suggesting that a large amount is dropped in one place at once.
A flood of backstory
media
informal
A large amount of background information shared all at once, often in a way that feels excessive or interrupts a story or conversation.
Examples
- The opening chapter is a lore dump about three ancient kingdoms.
- Could the game reveal its history gradually instead of giving us another lore dump?
- Her lore dump made the villain's motives much easier to understand.
- I asked about his hometown and got a forty-minute lore dump about his family.
- That video looks silly until the creator delivers a surprisingly moving lore dump.
- Save the lore dump for later, because everyone is trying to follow the main plot.