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},
{
"ref": "2017, Ainslie Paton, The Love Experiment",
"text": "But he'd clickbaited her.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Brian Whitney, Subversive: Interviews with Radicals",
"text": "I have never clickbaited anyone with overexaggerated titles, but also never downplayed the severity of the content within.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To add clickbait to a web page; to direct clickbait at someone."
],
"links": [
[
"web page",
"web page"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈklɪkbeɪt/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "click-bait"
},
{
"word": "click bait"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"clickbait"
],
"word": "clickbait"
}
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