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Definition of click-bait
click-bait 
adjective
- of the title to an article or webpage, vague enough so that one has to click the title to learn what the destination is actually about.
- See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.
Last edited on Dec 15 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Dec 15 2010.
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Other terms relating to 'computer slang': | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "who gives a fuck". | |
| Definitions include: outdoors. | |
| Definitions include: an unattractive female or one with a bad reputation. | |
| Definitions include: "what's". | |
| Definitions include: a system that was created by hacking it up over time. | |
| Definitions include: on a social networking website, to add someone to one's list of friends. | |
| Definitions include: "I see". | |
| Definitions include: to cite a relevant excerpt from some text. | |
| Definitions include: a link to other bloggers' blogs on a blog. | |
| Definitions include: an attractive female. | |
| Definitions include: "ok, thanks." | |
| Definitions include: to search the world wide web for references that would enlarge a person's ego. | |
| Definitions include: a "syndrome" involving a company's hesitance or refusal to use any idea or product it didn't invent or create. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "safe for work." | |
| Definitions include: "baby". | |
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Other terms relating to 'bait': | |
| Definitions include: a person who reports the misdeeds of another; "snitch"; "tattle-tale". | |
| Definitions include: to tell on someone; "snitch". | |
| Definitions include: to defecate. | |
| Definitions include: to defecate; POOP. | |
| Definitions include: To defecate. | |
| Definitions include: to defecate; "poop". | |
| Definitions include: a post to a discussion forum that is intended to incite flames. | |
| Definitions include: a person under the age of consent for sex - i.e. you would probably be sent to jail for having sex with them | |
| Definitions include: acronym for jail bait. | |
| Definitions include: take a shit. | |
| Definitions include: do not mess with underage girls. | |
| Definitions include: a load of feces | |
Other terms relating to 'click': | |
| Definitions include: one kilometer. | |
| Definitions include: remote control, usually for a television. | |
| Definitions include: a full set of dentures. | |
| Definitions include: to masturbate. Note: applies only to females. | |
| Definitions include: a greeting similar in form to "What's up?" or "What's crackin'?", but more related to new trends on the Internet. | |
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