"linkbait" meaning in English

See linkbait in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} linkbait (uncountable)
  1. Alternative form of link bait Tags: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Alternative form of: link bait
    Sense id: en-linkbait-en-noun-oD3WWiqz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for linkbait meaning in English (0.9kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "linkbait (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "link bait"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012 January 19, Rob Trump, “Watching Hipster Runoff Eat its Own Tail”, in New York",
          "text": "Or, if it wasn’t resentment (and it probably wasn’t, because Carles can do resentment really well when he wants to) it was something lamer: another excuse to post linkbait and pictures of scantily clad attractive women.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of link bait"
      ],
      "id": "en-linkbait-en-noun-oD3WWiqz",
      "links": [
        [
          "link bait",
          "link bait#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "linkbait"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "linkbait (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "link bait"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012 January 19, Rob Trump, “Watching Hipster Runoff Eat its Own Tail”, in New York",
          "text": "Or, if it wasn’t resentment (and it probably wasn’t, because Carles can do resentment really well when he wants to) it was something lamer: another excuse to post linkbait and pictures of scantily clad attractive women.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of link bait"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "link bait",
          "link bait#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "linkbait"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.