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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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Learn the meanings of troll as a noun and a verb in English, with examples from mythology, fishing, internet, and business. Find out how to pronounce troll and see translations in other languages.
Learn the origin, synonyms, and usage of the word troll in different contexts. Troll can be a noun for a mythical creature, a verb for fishing or online harassment, or a noun for a lure or a line.
Trolls based on the dolls appeared in the Hollywood animated movie Trolls (2016) and its subsequent sequels Trolls World Tour (2020), and Trolls Band Together (2023). Troll [21] is the name, and main antagonist, of a 2022 Norwegian movie released by Netflix on December 1, 2022.
Learn the meaning of troll as a noun, verb and adjective in different contexts, such as mythology, fishing, internet and business. Find out how to pronounce troll and see examples of troll in sentences.
In slang, a troll is a person who posts deliberately offensive or provocative messages online [1] (such as in social media, a newsgroup, a forum, a chat room, an online video game) or who performs similar behaviors in real life. The methods and motivations of trolls can range from benign to sadistic.
Learn the different meanings and uses of the word troll in English, from Scandinavian mythology to internet slang. Find synonyms, pronunciation, examples and word origin of troll.
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!
