clickbait en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈklɪkbeɪt/ (UK)
- (US) audio
Etymology
Etymology tree English click Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- Proto-Indo-European *-t Proto-Indo-European *bʰéydt Proto-Germanic *bītaną Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-Germanic *baitijaną Old Norse beitabor. Middle English bayte English bait English -bait English clickbait From click + -bait (“manipulation to elicit a particular response”).
Meanings
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(Internet, countable, derogatory, uncountable) 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.
In August 2016, leaders at Facebook announced a plan to identify and limit clickbait, because the Facebook newsfeed goal is to “show people the stories most relevant to them.”
2017, Ted Kwartler, Text Mining in Practice with R, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:What is less clear is whether Maga’s identity crisis reflects a schism among the movement’s rank and file, with the potential for an anti-Trump revolt, or merely the incentives of clickbait-driven social media.
2026 March 22, David Smith, “‘Extremely ugly’: Maga media figures squabble among themselves over Trump’s Iran war”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:Fairfax's sites are renowned for what is sometimes called ‘clickbait’: headlines written to beguile passing eyeballs but which obscure nondescript or irrelevant stories.
2012, Gideon Haigh, The Deserted Newsroom, Penguin, →ISBN:In comparison with algorithms used in the past, this SI based technique provided a better accuracy and a human interpretable set of rules to classify clickbaits
2019, Deepanshu Pandey, Garimendra Verma, Sushama Nagpal, “Clickbait Detection Using Swarm Intelligence”, in Advances in Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems:"His careful lawyerly writing would be out of fashion now", wrote one commenter after Kettle's piece. "It wasn't clickbait".
2013 September 29, Peter Preston, The Observer:
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| click bait | alternative | lexicographic | |
| click-bait | alternative | lexicographic | |
| clickbaits | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (30)
tr tıklama tuzağı (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · pl clickbait (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · eo klaklogaĵo (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · nl clickbait (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · af klikaas (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · es pescaclics (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · es ciberañagaza (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · pt caça-clique (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · ja クリックベイト (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · de Klickköder (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · ko 클릭 미끼 (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · ca pescaclics (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · ga cluain chliceála (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · fr piège à clics (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · da klikmadding (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · es añagaza de/para clics (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · sh navlakuša (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · fi klikkiotsikko (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · da clickbait (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · ko 클릭베이트 (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · ru кликбейт (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · cmn 標題黨 /标题党 (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · de Clickbait (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · he קליקבייט (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · tr clickbait (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · it acchiappaclic (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · hu kattintásvadász (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · fr putaclic (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · da kliklokkemad (content aimed at generating advertising revenue) · ca clickbait (content aimed at generating advertising revenue)