Clickbait-y
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Clickbait-y is an adjective meaning Alternative form of clickbaity.
Meaning
Alternative form of clickbaity.
Example Sentences
A tantalizing, clickbait-y headline gets slapped atop the tweet, video or blog. ("You won't believe the five life lessons in this shocking video!")
Even if they can't execute it as well as Buzzfeed,^([sic]) it's also fine to run some clickbait-y content to subsidise the more important but less popular reporting they^([sic]) good media outlets should produce.
The Daily Caller, rightwing blog and trusty purveyor of all things clickbait-y, aggressively aggregated a story over the weekend that a woman has sued the city over being stopped and frisked in Brooklyn last year.
Word Forms
- clickbait-ier
- clickbait-iest
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include snippity, hotbutton, box-like, nicey nicey, nicey-nice, schticky.
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