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- Dictionarytroll/trɒl/
noun
- 1. a person who makes a deliberately offensive or provocative online post: "one solution is to make a troll's postings invisible to the rest of community once they've been recognized"
- 2. a line or bait used in trolling for fish.
verb
- 1. make a deliberately offensive or provocative online post with the aim of upsetting someone or eliciting an angry response from them: "if people are obviously trolling then I'll delete your posts and do my best to ban you"
- 2. carefully and systematically search an area for something: "a group of companies trolling for partnership opportunities"
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someone who leaves an intentionally annoying or offensive message on the internet, in order to upset someone or to get attention or cause trouble. a message that someone leaves on the internet that is intended to annoy people: A well-constructed troll will provoke irate or confused responses from flamers and newbies.
The meaning of TROLL is a dwarf or giant in Scandinavian folklore inhabiting caves or hills. How to use troll in a sentence.
someone who leaves an intentionally annoying or offensive message on the internet, in order to upset someone or to get attention or cause trouble. a message that someone leaves on the internet that is intended to annoy people: A well-constructed troll will provoke irate or confused responses from flamers and newbies.
To troll someone is to harass them. The online troll is related to the trolls of legend and fiction, supernatural creatures that live in caves or other underground places. In such stories, trolls are monsters that are unfriendly to humans and sometimes kidnap them.
If you troll someone, you deliberately try to upset them or start an argument with them, especially by posting offensive or unkind things on the internet.
A troll is a supernatural creature who is either very big or very small, ugly, and not very nice. You're most likely to read about a troll in a fairytale — perhaps trying to trick a beautiful princess into marrying him!
1. To fish by trailing a line, as from a moving boat. 2. a. To stroll along or wander: "As he was extremely early, he trolled past the community center" (David Bezmozgis). b. To move around in an area or go to different places searching for something. c.
Definition of troll verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Definition of troll noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
TROLL meaning: 1 : a creature that looks like a very large or very small ugly person; 2 : a person who tries to cause problems on an Internet message board by posting messages that cause other people to argue, become angry, etc.
