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- Dictionarytroll/trōl/
noun
- 1. a person who makes a deliberately offensive or provocative online post.
- 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 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.
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.
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.
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!
Trolls are legendary creatures in Scandinavian mythology and folklore, often with magic powers and hostile to men. They also appear in modern tales, plays, and arts as symbols of destructive instincts or menacing figures.
