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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈɹɪkɹəʊl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɹɪkˌɹoʊl/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-rickroll.wav [Southern-England] Forms: rickrolls [plural], Rickroll [alternative], Rick-Roll [alternative], rick-roll [alternative]
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs Proto-Celtic *rīxsbor. Proto-Germanic *rīks Proto-West Germanic *rīk Proto-Indo-European *kret-der.? Proto-Germanic *harduz Proto-Indo-European *-yos Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Germanic *-jaz Proto-West Germanic *-ī Proto-West Germanic *hardu Proto-West Germanic *Rīkuhardu Old High German Rihhart Middle High German Rihardbor. Medieval Latin Richardusder. Old French Richardbor. Middle English Rycharde English Richardder. English Rick (Astley) Proto-Germanic *dūkaną Proto-West Germanic *dūkan Old English dū̆ce Middle English doke English duck English roll English duckroll blend English rickroll The verb is a blend of Rick + duckroll, combining the name of the British pop singer and songwriter Rick Astley (born 1966) with a reference to the duckroll prank on the website 4chan, in which users tricked into clicking on a hyperlink were led to an image of a duck on wheels. The word was coined by the American YouTuber Shawn Cotter (born 1987) who, under the handle “cotter548”, uploaded the music video of Astley’s song “Never Gonna Give You Up” (1987) to the online video-sharing service YouTube and then posted messages on 4chan on May 15, 2007 ostensibly with links to a trailer for the forthcoming game Grand Theft Auto IV. People who clicked on the links instead saw the Astley video with the caption “You just got Rickroll’d” scrolling across the screen. The noun is derived from the verb. Etymology templates: {{etymon|en|:blend|Rick<id:male given name><alt:Rick (Astley)>|duckroll<id:to prank>|id=Rick Astley|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs Proto-Celtic *rīxsbor. Proto-Germanic *rīks Proto-West Germanic *rīk Proto-Indo-European *kret-der.? Proto-Germanic *harduz Proto-Indo-European *-yos Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Germanic *-jaz Proto-West Germanic *-ī Proto-West Germanic *hardu Proto-West Germanic *Rīkuhardu Old High German Rihhart Middle High German Rihardbor. Medieval Latin Richardusder. Old French Richardbor. Middle English Rycharde English Richardder. English Rick (Astley) Proto-Germanic *dūkaną Proto-West Germanic *dūkan Old English dū̆ce Middle English doke English duck English roll English duckroll blend English rickroll [Appendix:Glossary#derived_terms|Derived]] from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "male given name", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "bor.", "keyword_label" : "Borrowed from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "bor.", "keyword_label" : "Borrowed from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "gloss" : "king, ruler", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "king", "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "bor.", "keyword_label" : "Borrowed from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "king", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "king", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "to straighten", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*h₃reǵ-", "lang" : "ine-pro" }, { "id" : "lengthened acrostatic", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-s", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*h₃rḗǵs", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Celtic", "term" : "*rīxs", "lang" : "cel-pro" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*rīks", "lang" : "gem-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-West Germanic", "term" : "*rīk", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gmw-pro" }, { "alt" : "*hardu", "gloss" : "hard, brave", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "is_uncertain" : true, "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "id" 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"term" : "*hard(ī)", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gmw-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-West Germanic", "term" : "*Rīkuhardu", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "gmw-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" }, { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Old High German", "term" : "*rīh", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "goh" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Old High German", "term" : "hart", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "goh" } ], "keyword_label" : "By surface analysis,", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix", "is_invisible" : "tree" } ], "lang_name" : "Old High German", "term" : "Rihhart", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "goh" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle High German", "term" : "Rihard", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "gmh" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "Medieval Latin", "term" : "Richardus", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la-med" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Old French", "term" : "Richard", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "fro" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "Rycharde", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "Richard", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "Rick", "lang" : "en" }, { "id" : "to prank", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "bird", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*dūkaną", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "gem-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-West Germanic", "term" : "*dūkan", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gmw-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "uder" } ], "lang_name" : "Old English", "term" : "dū̆ce", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ang" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "doke", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "duck", "lang" : "en" }, { "id" : "noun", "children" : [ ], "status" : "missing", "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "roll", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "duckroll", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "Blend of", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "blend" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "rickroll", "lang" : "en" }" data-id="Rick Astley" data-lang="en" data-title="rickroll" id="English:_Rick_Astley">, {{glossary|verb}} verb, {{blend|en|Rick|duckroll|nocap=1}} blend of Rick + duckroll, {{coinage|en|Shawn Cotter|nat=the American|nobycat=1|nocap=1|occ=YouTuber|w=-}} coined by the American YouTuber Shawn Cotter, {{glossary|noun}} noun Head templates: {{en-noun}} rickroll (plural rickrolls)
  1. (Internet slang) An act of or attempt at rickrolling. Tags: Internet, transitive Translations (act of or attempt at rickrolling): rickrollaus (Finnish), rickroll [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-rickroll-en-noun-tMrLBoS9

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈɹɪkɹəʊl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɹɪkˌɹoʊl/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-rickroll.wav [Southern-England] Forms: rickrolls [present, singular, third-person], rickrolling [participle, present], rickrolled [participle, past], rickrolled [past], Rickroll [alternative], Rick-Roll [alternative], rick-roll [alternative]
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs Proto-Celtic *rīxsbor. Proto-Germanic *rīks Proto-West Germanic *rīk Proto-Indo-European *kret-der.? Proto-Germanic *harduz Proto-Indo-European *-yos Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Germanic *-jaz Proto-West Germanic *-ī Proto-West Germanic *hardu Proto-West Germanic *Rīkuhardu Old High German Rihhart Middle High German Rihardbor. Medieval Latin Richardusder. Old French Richardbor. Middle English Rycharde English Richardder. English Rick (Astley) Proto-Germanic *dūkaną Proto-West Germanic *dūkan Old English dū̆ce Middle English doke English duck English roll English duckroll blend English rickroll The verb is a blend of Rick + duckroll, combining the name of the British pop singer and songwriter Rick Astley (born 1966) with a reference to the duckroll prank on the website 4chan, in which users tricked into clicking on a hyperlink were led to an image of a duck on wheels. The word was coined by the American YouTuber Shawn Cotter (born 1987) who, under the handle “cotter548”, uploaded the music video of Astley’s song “Never Gonna Give You Up” (1987) to the online video-sharing service YouTube and then posted messages on 4chan on May 15, 2007 ostensibly with links to a trailer for the forthcoming game Grand Theft Auto IV. People who clicked on the links instead saw the Astley video with the caption “You just got Rickroll’d” scrolling across the screen. The noun is derived from the verb. Etymology templates: {{etymon|en|:blend|Rick<id:male given name><alt:Rick (Astley)>|duckroll<id:to prank>|id=Rick Astley|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs Proto-Celtic *rīxsbor. Proto-Germanic *rīks Proto-West Germanic *rīk Proto-Indo-European *kret-der.? Proto-Germanic *harduz Proto-Indo-European *-yos Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Germanic *-jaz Proto-West Germanic *-ī Proto-West Germanic *hardu Proto-West Germanic *Rīkuhardu Old High German Rihhart Middle High German Rihardbor. Medieval Latin Richardusder. Old French Richardbor. Middle English Rycharde English Richardder. English Rick (Astley) Proto-Germanic *dūkaną Proto-West Germanic *dūkan Old English dū̆ce Middle English doke English duck English roll English duckroll blend English rickroll [Appendix:Glossary#derived_terms|Derived]] from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "male given name", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "bor.", "keyword_label" : "Borrowed from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "bor.", "keyword_label" : "Borrowed from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "gloss" : "king, ruler", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "king", "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "bor.", "keyword_label" : "Borrowed from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "king", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "king", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "to straighten", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*h₃reǵ-", "lang" : "ine-pro" }, { "id" : "lengthened acrostatic", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-s", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*h₃rḗǵs", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Celtic", "term" : "*rīxs", "lang" : "cel-pro" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*rīks", "lang" : "gem-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-West Germanic", "term" : "*rīk", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gmw-pro" }, { "alt" : "*hardu", "gloss" : "hard, brave", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "is_uncertain" : true, "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "strong", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*kret-", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*harduz", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gem-pro" }, { "id" : "adjective", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "-ed", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-yos", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "ine-pro" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-yós", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*-jaz", "lang" : "gem-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-West Germanic", "term" : "*-ī", "lang" : "gmw-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-West Germanic", "term" : "*hard(ī)", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gmw-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-West Germanic", "term" : "*Rīkuhardu", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "gmw-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" }, { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Old High German", "term" : "*rīh", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "goh" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Old High German", "term" : "hart", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "goh" } ], "keyword_label" : "By surface analysis,", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix", "is_invisible" : "tree" } ], "lang_name" : "Old High German", "term" : "Rihhart", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "goh" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle High German", "term" : "Rihard", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "gmh" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "Medieval Latin", "term" : "Richardus", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la-med" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Old French", "term" : "Richard", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "fro" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "Rycharde", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "Richard", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "Rick", "lang" : "en" }, { "id" : "to prank", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "bird", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*dūkaną", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "gem-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-West Germanic", "term" : "*dūkan", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gmw-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "uder" } ], "lang_name" : "Old English", "term" : "dū̆ce", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ang" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "doke", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "duck", "lang" : "en" }, { "id" : "noun", "children" : [ ], "status" : "missing", "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "roll", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "duckroll", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "Blend of", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "blend" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "rickroll", "lang" : "en" }" data-id="Rick Astley" data-lang="en" data-title="rickroll" id="English:_Rick_Astley">, {{glossary|verb}} verb, {{blend|en|Rick|duckroll|nocap=1}} blend of Rick + duckroll, {{coinage|en|Shawn Cotter|nat=the American|nobycat=1|nocap=1|occ=YouTuber|w=-}} coined by the American YouTuber Shawn Cotter, {{glossary|noun}} noun Head templates: {{en-verb}} rickroll (third-person singular simple present rickrolls, present participle rickrolling, simple past and past participle rickrolled), {{tlb|en|transitive}} (transitive)
  1. (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". Tags: transitive Translations (to mislead (someone) into opening a hyperlink leading to a YouTube video of Rick Astley’s song “Never Gonna Give You Up”): rickrollata (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-rickroll-en-verb-AcG6mW4P Categories (other): English blends, English entries with etymology trees, English entries with etymon, English entries with incorrect language header, English links with manual fragments, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Pages with etymology trees, Pages with etymon, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Internet memes, YouTube Disambiguation of English blends: 26 38 21 15 Disambiguation of English entries with etymology trees: 30 46 11 13 Disambiguation of English entries with etymon: 31 50 11 8 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 52 5 11 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 16 63 13 9 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 29 51 12 8 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 31 60 6 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 28 63 5 3 Disambiguation of Pages with etymology trees: 20 63 9 9 Disambiguation of Pages with etymon: 20 68 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 21 64 9 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 22 56 11 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 21 45 12 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 19 58 9 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 24 52 14 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 24 59 10 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 22 63 9 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 20 63 9 8 Disambiguation of Internet memes: 14 66 6 13 Disambiguation of YouTube: 7 82 7 4 Disambiguation of 'to mislead (someone) into opening a hyperlink leading to a YouTube video of Rick Astley’s song “Never Gonna Give You Up”': 96 2 2
  2. (by extension)
    To surprise or trick (someone) into hearing this song.     Tags: broadly, transitive
    Sense id: en-rickroll-en-verb-I5L37aVW
  3. (by extension)
    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.     Tags: broadly, transitive
    Sense id: en-rickroll-en-verb-cl3GKYeZ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: rickrollee, rickroller, rickrolling [noun]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "Despite its name, there is one thing the Vote Leave campaign should not have left for so long: registering a domain name. The delay by the anti-EU organisation meant that up to 100,000 people who tried to access voteleave.com, co.uk or .net were rickrolled – redirected to a YouTube clip of Rick Astley's 1987 hit Never Gonna Give You Up. So far, so internet.",
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          "text": "Two men on the sidelines surprised the crowd by blasting the British singer Rick Astley’s 1987 hit song “Never Gonna Give You Up” through the gym, while one, dressed as a look-alike in Mr. Astley’s signature trench coat, lip-synched and mugged to the music: a popular prank known as rickrolling.",
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          "text": "With a single tap on its screen, the device can take over any one of the millions of televisions connected to a Google Chromecast digital media player that happens to be within Wi-Fi range and force it to play Astley's canonical “Never Gonna Give You Up” music video—or any other equally annoying or embarrassing YouTube clip of the prankster’s choosing. […] But [Dan] Petro nonetheless imagines a rickmote-wielding hacker moving slowly through around a dense residential area and wirelessly rickrolling one hapless Chromecast owner after another.",
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          "text": "He turned on the radio. An oldies station from Phoenix was in the middle of playing Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”. / “Oh my God!” Harlowe screamed and laughed. “Did Phoenix just ‘Rick Roll’ us?”",
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          "text": "For their latest hack, students decided to RickRoll the Dome in the nerdiest way possible—by wrapping the first eight notes of the now infamous pop song around it's exterior.",
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          "text": "Sairam Gudiseva’s boast on Twitter that he had ‘Rick Rolled my physics teacher …’', posting an accompanying photograph of his essay with the verse from the 1987 hit ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ written with the first word on every line.",
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          "text": "Now, I know that the the^([sic]) problem with what I'm saying is that it sounds like a recipe for being really boring and humdrum. Links, links, links. I'm not really; the rickroll has a value, to spike peoples' inflated expectations, or remind them—wittily—of their weaknesses: […]",
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          "text": "In the Internet world and in multiplayer videogames in particular, to play a hoax on someone is also called trolling. […] One well-known tactic is the ‘rick roll’ meme, wherein someone is led to believe that a certain action, for example, clicking a particular hyperlink, will be relevant to his aims but instead the victim is unintentionally directed to a music video for the 1987 song \"Never Gonna Give You Up\" by Rick Astley.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "Despite its name, there is one thing the Vote Leave campaign should not have left for so long: registering a domain name. The delay by the anti-EU organisation meant that up to 100,000 people who tried to access voteleave.com, co.uk or .net were rickrolled – redirected to a YouTube clip of Rick Astley's 1987 hit Never Gonna Give You Up. So far, so internet.",
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          "text": "Two men on the sidelines surprised the crowd by blasting the British singer Rick Astley’s 1987 hit song “Never Gonna Give You Up” through the gym, while one, dressed as a look-alike in Mr. Astley’s signature trench coat, lip-synched and mugged to the music: a popular prank known as rickrolling.",
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          "text": "With a single tap on its screen, the device can take over any one of the millions of televisions connected to a Google Chromecast digital media player that happens to be within Wi-Fi range and force it to play Astley's canonical “Never Gonna Give You Up” music video—or any other equally annoying or embarrassing YouTube clip of the prankster’s choosing. […] But [Dan] Petro nonetheless imagines a rickmote-wielding hacker moving slowly through around a dense residential area and wirelessly rickrolling one hapless Chromecast owner after another.",
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          "text": "He turned on the radio. An oldies station from Phoenix was in the middle of playing Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”. / “Oh my God!” Harlowe screamed and laughed. “Did Phoenix just ‘Rick Roll’ us?”",
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          "text": "For their latest hack, students decided to RickRoll the Dome in the nerdiest way possible—by wrapping the first eight notes of the now infamous pop song around it's exterior.",
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          "text": "Sairam Gudiseva’s boast on Twitter that he had ‘Rick Rolled my physics teacher …’', posting an accompanying photograph of his essay with the verse from the 1987 hit ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ written with the first word on every line.",
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          "text": "Specifically, one passage from [Melania] Trump's inspiring address bears a striking resemblance to Astley's song, which had led to accusations that the Trump campaign may be \"Rick-rolling\" the electorate.",
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          "ref": "2008 December 5, Charles Arthur, “Why rickrolling is bad for you”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2022:",
          "text": "Now, I know that the the^([sic]) problem with what I'm saying is that it sounds like a recipe for being really boring and humdrum. Links, links, links. I'm not really; the rickroll has a value, to spike peoples' inflated expectations, or remind them—wittily—of their weaknesses: […]",
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          "text": "Chances are that at some point in 2008, you or someone you know experienced a \"Rick Roll\"—a bait-and-switch prank that dupes you into watching the video for Rick Astley's 1980s hit \"Never Gonna Give You Up.\" […] But perhaps the ultimate Rick Roll occurred on April Fool's Day in 2008, when YouTube rigged up every feature video on the home page to play Astley's infamous clip.",
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          "ref": "2016 September 16, Louis Nelson, “Jake Tapper Calls Trump Event a ‘Political Rick-roll’”, in Politico, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2022:",
          "text": "CNN anchor Jake Tapper called Donald Trump's decision to trot out an array of military medal winners before addressing his long-held questions about President Barack Obama's birth a \"political Rick-roll.\" […] \"While these American heroes are, you know, people that we should all show reverence and respect, they are much greater men than Rick Astley, it’s hard to imagine this as anything other than a political Rick-roll,\" Tapper said.",
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          "text": "In the Internet world and in multiplayer videogames in particular, to play a hoax on someone is also called trolling. […] One well-known tactic is the ‘rick roll’ meme, wherein someone is led to believe that a certain action, for example, clicking a particular hyperlink, will be relevant to his aims but instead the victim is unintentionally directed to a music video for the 1987 song \"Never Gonna Give You Up\" by Rick Astley.",
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          "text": "This seems much more likely to be the work of a talented but inexperienced individual. […] The rick-roll in the code seems juvenile and unprofessional.",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-10-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.