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trolling

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. troll, trollingnoun

   angling by drawing a baited line through the water

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. trolling

   In slang, a troll is a person who posts or makes inflammatory, insincere, digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages online (such as in social media, a newsgroup, a forum, a chat room, an online video game), or in real life, with the intent of provoking others into displaying emotional responses, or manipulating others' perception. The behavior is typically for the troll's amusement, or to achieve a specific result such as disrupting a rival's online activities or purposefully causing confusion or harm to other people.In this context, both the noun and the verb forms of "troll" are frequently associated with Internet discourse. Media attention in recent years has equated trolling with online harassment. The Courier-Mail and The Today Show have used "troll" to mean "a person who defaces Internet tribute sites with the aim of causing grief to families". In addition, depictions of trolling have been included in popular fictional works, such as the HBO television program The Newsroom, in which a main character encounters harassing persons online and tries to infiltrate their circles by posting negative sexual comments.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Trolling

   of Troll

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. trolling

   Drawing the bait along the water to imitate the swimming of a real fish; this is generally done by a long line attached to the stern of a sailing-boat. The word of old signified sauntering or idling about.

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1. • Angling

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1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of trolling in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of trolling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of trolling in a Sentence

1. Elizabeth Warren:

   It comes in all sorts of flavors : racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia. It comes in all sorts of forms : nasty personal attacks. Trolling on Twitter. Winking at white supremacists. It all adds up to the same thing : the politics of division.

2. Bill Clinton:

   She and other people who have gone online to defend Hillary and explain -- just explain -- why they supported her have been subject to vicious trolling and attacks that are literally too profane often -- not to mention sexist -- to repeat.

3. The FBI:

   The incarcerated fraudsters — who typically bribe guards to acquire cell phones — would choose an affluent area such as Beverly Hills, California, they would search the Internet to learn the correct area code and telephone dialing prefix. Then, with nothing but time on their hands, they would start dialing numbers in sequence, trolling for victims.

4. State Rep. Mike Johnson:

   They’ve never even been to this school, they literally are trolling the Internet looking for things to be offended by. They are on a search and destroy mission for all things Christian.

5. Captain Dave Bender:

   We were trolling, about 70 miles from Manasquan Inlet, for Bluefin tuna, and we hooked a very nice fish, we did n’t see Captain Dave Bender, but we could n’t gain much on Captain Dave Bender.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=trolling
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolling
3. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trolling
4. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=trolling