Rickroll

Quick meaning: Rickroll is a verb meaning To surprise or trick (someone) into hearing this song.

Meaning

To surprise or trick (someone) into hearing this song.

More Meanings

1. (Internet slang) An act of or attempt at rickrolling.
2. (originally Internet slang) To mislead (someone) into following a seemingly innocuous hyperlink, or sometimes a QR code, that leads to a YouTube video of Rick Astley's song "Never Gonna Give You Up".
3. To cause (someone) to unexpectedly engage with this song through an indirect method, such as through steganography, sheet music, or by inserting the lyrics into an unrelated context.

Example Sentences

The DJ rickrolled the whole audience by suddenly playing Rick Astley’s hit song.

I try not to get rickrolled by sketchy YouTube links, but sometimes you let your guard down.

In 2008, Astley proved he was a good sport about the joke, interrupting a song on the float for "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends" to Rickroll the parade.

Once you start rickrolling people, and more importantly get a reputation for it, you're heading towards being the Zimbabwean dollar in the link economy: it doesn't matter how many you offer, people just aren't going to buy them.

Word Forms

• rickrolls
• rickrolling
• rickrolled
• rick-roll

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include duckroll, roll, logroll, rickshaw, rowle, reroll.

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