Definitions For Clickbait

Verb

To add clickbait to a web page; to direct clickbait at someone.

Noun

CLICKBAIT. (countable and uncountable, plural CLICKBAITs) (Internet, _, marketing, pejorative) Website content that is aimed at generating advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs; such headlines. : Synonym: link bait

Derived terms

clickbaity clickbaiter

Translations

Arabic: Catalan: clickbait, m, pescaclics, m Chinese: : Mandarin: 標題黨, 标题党, tr=biāotídǎng Danish: clickbait, c, kliklokkemad, c , klikmadding, c Dutch: clickbait Esperanto: klaklogaĵo Finnish: klikkiotsikko French: piège à clics, putaclic German: Klickköder, m, Clickbait, m Hebrew: Hungarian: Irish: cluain chliceála, f Japanese: Korean: 클릭베이트, 클릭 미끼 Polish: clickbait, m Portuguese: caça-clique Russian: кликбейт, n Serbo-Croatian: navlakuša, f Spanish: ciberanzuelo, m Swedish: Turkish:

Alternative forms

Etymology

From click + bait.

See also

chumbox click-through