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- Dictionarytroll/trɒl/
noun
- 1. a person who makes a deliberately offensive or provocative online post: "one solution is to make a troll's postings invisible to the rest of community once they've been recognized"
- 2. a line or bait used in trolling for fish.
verb
- 1. make a deliberately offensive or provocative online post with the aim of upsetting someone or eliciting an angry response from them: "if people are obviously trolling then I'll delete your posts and do my best to ban you"
- 2. carefully and systematically search an area for something: "a group of companies trolling for partnership opportunities"
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someone who leaves an intentionally annoying or offensive message on the internet, in order to upset someone or to get attention or cause trouble. a message that someone leaves on the internet that is intended to annoy people: A well-constructed troll will provoke irate or confused responses from flamers and newbies.
The meaning of TROLL is a dwarf or giant in Scandinavian folklore inhabiting caves or hills. How to use troll in a sentence.
A revision of a Wikipedia article shows a troll vandalizing an article on Wikipedia by replacing content with an insult. In slang, a troll is a person who posts deliberately offensive or provocative messages online [1] (such as in social media, a newsgroup, a forum, a chat room, an online video game) or who performs similar behaviors in real life.
someone who leaves an intentionally annoying or offensive message on the internet, in order to upset someone or to get attention or cause trouble. a message that someone leaves on the internet that is intended to annoy people: A well-constructed troll will provoke irate or confused responses from flamers and newbies.
A troll is a supernatural creature who is either very big or very small, ugly, and not very nice. You're most likely to read about a troll in a fairytale — perhaps trying to trick a beautiful princess into marrying him!
verb (used with object) to fish for or in with a moving line, either working the line up or down with a rod as in fishing for pike, or trailing the line behind a slow-moving boat: In September, boat anglers were starting to troll the river for salmon. to move (the line or bait) continuously through the water while fishing, as from a moving boat:
If you troll someone, you deliberately try to upset them or start an argument with them, especially by posting offensive or unkind things on the internet.
The Old Norse nouns troll and trǫll (variously meaning "fiend, demon, werewolf, jötunn") and Middle High German troll, trolle "fiend" (according to philologist Vladimir Orel likely borrowed from Old Norse) developed from Proto-Germanic neuter noun *trullan.
1. To fish by trailing a line, as from a moving boat. 2. a. To stroll along or wander: "As he was extremely early, he trolled past the community center" (David Bezmozgis). b. To move around in an area or go to different places searching for something. c.
Definition of troll noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
