Clickbait

Quick meaning: Clickbait is a noun meaning To add clickbait to a web page; to direct clickbait at someone.

Meaning

To add clickbait to a web page; to direct clickbait at someone.

More Meanings

1. (Internet marketing, derogatory) Website content that is aimed at generating advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs; such headlines.

Example Sentences

But he'd clickbaited her.

I have never clickbaited anyone with overexaggerated titles, but also never downplayed the severity of the content within.

"His careful lawyerly writing would be out of fashion now", wrote one commenter after Kettle's piece. "It wasn't clickbait".

In comparison with algorithms used in the past, this SI based technique provided a better accuracy and a human interpretable set of rules to classify clickbaits

Word Forms

• clickbaits
• click-bait
• click bait
• clickbaiting
• clickbaited

Synonyms for clickbait

Depending on context, synonyms include shitbait.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sharebait, linkbaiting, ragebait, chumbox, click-through, spamvertisement.

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