Definition of Rick roll

Rick roll

When you click on a link on the web and the link takes you to a site other than where you had anticipated it to go.
I got rick rolled into another website.
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Last edited on Jan 12 2012. Submitted by Anonymous from Indrani Satra, Kankurgachi, Kolkata, West Bengal, India on Nov 06 2008.
Also can apply to ending up in a different situation other than what you initially were led to believe, surprise outcome or fooled.
The sales rep rick rolled me into another product.
This definition is questionable and is pending deletion. It will be saved from deletion if legitimate citations are found.
Last edited on Jan 12 2012. Submitted by Anonymous from Indrani Satra, Kankurgachi, Kolkata, West Bengal, India on Nov 06 2008.
to trick people into clicking a link on the World Wide Web that (unexpectedly) directs to a page that plays Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" music video.
You just got Rickrolled!

Citation from "The Assclown Offensive: How to Enrage the Church of Scientology", Wired, Julian Dibbell, September 2009 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.
- See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.
Last edited on Jan 12 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 08 2009.

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bog roll	Definitions include: toilet paper.
FOCROFLOL	Definitions include: acronym for "falling off chair, rolling on floor, laughing out loud".
FOTFL	Definitions include: rolling on the floor laughing
get the ball rolling	Definitions include: to start a process.
jelly roll	Definitions include: sex.
like rolling off a log	Definitions include: very easy to do.
Michigan bank roll	Definitions include: a wad of currency in small denominations with a large denomination bill around the outside to make it look like more money.
nut-roll	Definitions include: An extremely painful event, akin to having your testicles overrun by a steamroller.
on a roll	Definitions include: performing well.
rock and roll	Definitions include: To initiate an action.
rock 'n' roll	Definitions include: "that's great!"
ROFL	Definitions include: acronym for "rolling on floor laughing".
ROFLMAO	Definitions include: acronym for "rolling on floor laughing my ass off".
roll	Definitions include: to use Ecstasy (MDMA).
roll balls	Definitions include: to have taken Ecstasy (MDMA) and be physically at the peak of the drug's effect.
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