"troll job" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: troll jobs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} troll job (plural troll jobs)
  1. (Internet slang) A prank played in order to upset people. Tags: Internet
    Sense id: en-troll_job-en-noun-yMqybTeZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 73 27
  2. (fantasy) A job suitable for or focused on a troll. Categories (topical): Fantasy
    Sense id: en-troll_job-en-noun-HOUvLY9g Topics: fantasy

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2003 May 27, Jack Schidt®v, “Eat to live vs Live to eat”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet)",
          "text": "\"Well, it looks like I really stirred up a shit storm with this thread.\" Yep, nice troll job, ray",
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          "ref": "2003 July 12, The Space Boss, “VICTOR \"THE VICTIM\" VELEZ”, in rec.martial-arts (Usenet)",
          "text": "Believe me, if I DID decide to do a troll job on this place, \"PHAMM\" or whatever his name is - ON HIS BEST DAY couldn't out-do me ON MY WORST.",
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          "ref": "2006 July 10, -cat-, “Is it a troll job or is it a tower mongrel?”, in alt.online-service.webtv (Usenet)",
          "text": "Myself, I believe it's a troll job because the people in the tower are bored to death. They have no one to fight with. They figure, let's stir up some action.",
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          "ref": "2010 January 23, Dano, “Good job Red Sox fans!”, in alt.sports.baseball.bos-redsox (Usenet)",
          "text": "Political troll job dressed up as a Red Sox post. Do explain how this is a classy way to troll.",
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          "ref": "2016, Drew Magary, The Hike: A Novel, page 47",
          "text": "Twenty minutes later, he let his eyelids split a quarter open and noticed a staircase going up to the third floor. This was the only house in the row that had an extra level, and the path had led him here. Of course, this had all been a massive cosmic troll job. Ben fully expected to walk up those stairs and find a giant papier-mâché middle finger waiting for him.",
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          "ref": "2014, Camille Anthony, Werewulf Journals",
          "text": "Leaning over his back, she glanced past his shoulder and recognized the receipts and paperwork from the troll job. Bittersweet nostalgia swept over her as she recalled the night she and Rosa had transformed a desperately lonely troll into a confident kickass female.",
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          "ref": "2016, Rob Harrell, Life of Zarf: Troll Overboard, page 14",
          "text": "It's common knowledge that trolls aren't the sharpest swords in the arsenal, so mog diving is a pretty common troll job.",
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