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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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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. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. troll. verb [ I or T ] uk / trəʊl / / trɒl / us / troʊl / troll verb [I or T] (FISH)
The meaning of TROLL is a dwarf or giant in Scandinavian folklore inhabiting caves or hills. How to use troll in a sentence.
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.
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.
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.
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!
