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Meaning of "Rickrolling" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF RICKROLLING

Rickrolling  [ˈrɪkˌrəʊlɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RICKROLLING

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exclamation
Rickrolling is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES RICKROLLING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Rickrolling

Rickrolling

Rickrolling is an Internet meme involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up". The meme is a bait and switch; a person provides a hyperlink which is seemingly relevant to the topic at hand, but actually leads to Astley's video. The link can be masked or obfuscated in some manner so that the user cannot determine the true destination of the link without clicking. People led to the music video are said to have been rickrolled. Rickrolling has extended beyond web links to playing the video or song disruptively in other situations, including public places, such as a live appearance of Astley himself in the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York. The meme helped to revive Astley's career.

Definition of Rickrolling in the English dictionary

The definition of Rickrolling in the dictionary is the playfully pointless practice of performing or playing the song ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ by the British singer Rick Astley to a person or group of people either at a public event or online by means of a disguised hyperlink.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RICKROLLING


antifouling
ˌæntɪˈfaʊlɪŋ
bowling
ˈbəʊlɪŋ
consoling
ˈkɒnsəʊlɪŋ
controlling
kənˈtrəʊlɪŋ
cowling
ˈkaʊlɪŋ
disenrolling
ˌdɪsɪnˈrəʊlɪŋ
high-rolling
ˈhaɪˈrəʊlɪŋ
howling
ˈhaʊlɪŋ
logrolling
ˈlɒɡˌrəʊlɪŋ
noncontrolling
ˌnɒnkənˈtrəʊlɪŋ
overcontrolling
ˌəʊvəkənˈtrəʊlɪŋ
polling
ˈpəʊlɪŋ
potholing
ˈpɒtˌhəʊlɪŋ
prowling
ˈpraʊlɪŋ
rolling
ˈrəʊlɪŋ
Rowling
ˈrəʊlɪŋ
scrolling
ˈskrəʊlɪŋ
self-controlling
ˌsɛlfkənˈtrəʊlɪŋ
Soling
ˈsəʊlɪŋ
strolling
ˈstrəʊlɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RICKROLLING

Ricoeur
ricotta
ricrac
RICS

WORDS THAT END LIKE RICKROLLING

bestselling
billing
calling
chilling
compelling
direct selling
drilling
dwelling
falling
feeling
filling
hot-selling
installing
killing
modelling
selling
spelling
start the ball rolling
telling
travelling
willing

Synonyms and antonyms of Rickrolling in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Rickrolling» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RICKROLLING

Find out the translation of Rickrolling to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Rickrolling from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Rickrolling» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

Rickrolling
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Rickrolling
570 millions of speakers

English

Rickrolling
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Rickrolling
380 millions of speakers
ar

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Rickrolling
280 millions of speakers

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Rickrolling
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Rickrolling
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রিকরোলিং
260 millions of speakers

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Rickrolling
220 millions of speakers

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Rickrolling
190 millions of speakers

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Rickrolling
180 millions of speakers

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Rickrolling
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Translator English - Korean

Rickrolling
85 millions of speakers

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Rickrolling
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Rickrolling
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ரிக்ரோலிங்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Rickrolling
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Rickrolling
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Rickrolling
65 millions of speakers

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Rickrolling
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Rickrolling
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Rickrolling
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Rickrolling
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

rick
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Rickrolling
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Rickrolling
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Rickrolling

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RICKROLLING»

The term «Rickrolling» is normally little used and occupies the 132.282 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Rickrolling

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RICKROLLING»

Discover the use of Rickrolling in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Rickrolling and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Rickrolling
Rickrolling is an Internet meme involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up." The meme is a bait and switch; a person provides a hyperlink seemingly relevant to the topic at hand, but actually leads to ...
Jesse Russel, Ronald Cohn, 2013
2
From Yuppies to Rickrolling: The Evolution of Cultural and ...
This book explores the more traditional cultural memes such as the preppy or yuppie labels based on fashion and socioeconomic status, as well as the newer meme phenomenons via the internet such as viral marketing, lolcat, and the viral ...
Beatriz Scaglia, 2011
3
Twitter API: Up and Running: Learn How to Build Applications ...
... directed commentaries to another person • Emoting and venting • Recording behavior, such as a change in location or eating habits • Posing a question • Rickrolling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling) • Crowdsourcing • Organizing flash ...
Kevin Makice, 2009
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Mind and Matter: Comparative Approaches Towards Complexity
It is true that meme theory – as proposed by Richard Dawkins and furthered by Susan Blackmore – has won new popularity with the emergence ofInternet memes such as Rickrolling and Lolcats,6 yet its analytical gain is mostly limited to the ...
Günther Friesinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Thomas Ballhausen, 2011
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FreeRADIUS Beginner's Guide
... permissionto Rickroll everyone using thecanteen's AccessPoint. Note Never been Rickrolled? Consider yourself lucky. You can read moreabout Rickrolling onWikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling. Time for action – incorporating ...
Dirk Van der Walt, 2011
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A Decade of the Dmca
Rickrolling is directing people to ultimately end up at a song by Rick Astley, “ never going to give you up”. There was a huge rickrolling on April 1st on YouTube. Also, Rick himself rickrolled people during the Macy's day parade in November ...
Marcia K. Wilbur, 2013
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Cloning Internet Applications with Ruby
One relatively mild form of such an attack is'rickrolling'. Rickrolling usesaclassic baitandswitch trick to redirect users toaRickAstley musicvideoofNever Gonna GiveYouUp.Forexample, youmight feelthat the URL http://tinyurl.com/ singaporeflyer ...
Chang Sau Sheong, 2010
8
Neologisms: Retronym, Backronym, Grok, Neologism, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Source: Wikipedia, Books Llc, Books Group, 2010
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Memes
For instance, “RickRolling,” the practice of promising a particularly interesting Web link online but really sending the user to a music video from '80s crooner Rick Astley (we discuss Internet memes further in Chapter 4) was something that  ...
John Gunders, Ph.D., Damon Brown, 2010
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My Formerly Hot Life: Dispatches from Just the Other Side of ...
Rickrolling is now what Rick Astley is most famous for, and all he had to do to be resurrected from the Wliere Are They Now? cold case file was absolutely nothing. In any event, Kathleen was appalled to find out that the term “rickrolling” has ...
Stephanie Dolgoff, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RICKROLLING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Rickrolling is used in the context of the following news items.
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Sideswipe: June 24: A lesson in rickrolling
Sideswipe answers: The internet meme known as "rickrolling" is a childish prank. When you click on a link expecting something amazing that you're mad keen ... «New Zealand Herald, Jun 15»
2
Mayor Walsh 'rickrolls' resident during Twitter chat
The practice of Rickrolling involves tricking a user into clicking a video link to the popular song “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley. In addition to claiming ... «Boston Globe, Jun 15»
3
Anatomy of an Internet freakout: The long, slow death of “Rickrolling
It would be impossible to talk about the early 2000s without mentioning the classic bait-and-switch phenomenon of Rickrolling, that hi-laarious thing where you ... «Salon, Apr 15»
4
Rickrolling gets floppy drive remake that won't let you down
Rickrolling is the "dad joke" of the Internet. It's overplayed, it's corny but when you fall for it, you just can't help but smile in embarrassment. How could you be so ... «Mashable, Apr 15»
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Could this be the end of Rickrolling? Rick Astley's Never Gonna …
If you've ever been driven to distraction by Rick Astley's classic 80s chart-topper Never Gonna Give You Up, then perhaps this version may be more to your taste. «Metro, Mar 15»
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Nationals teach ballpark etiquette with Rickrolling video
For weeks, I've seen occasional mention of the Nats “Rickrolling” fans before home games, with a newish video that explains proper ballpark etiquette. «Washington Post, May 14»
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Is Siri rickrolling some users?
April Fools' Day is still very far away, but Siri - Apple's voice-activated personal assistant – is rickrolling some users of Apple mobile devices running iOS 7, ... «GMA News, Sep 13»
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Rickrolled: Indie88 plays Rick Astley hit over and over and over
Of course, that song achieved Internet immortality years ago with the “Rickrolling” meme, in which pranksters send unwitting victims misleading links that, in fact, ... «Toronto Star, Jul 13»
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Vine gets 'Rickrolled' by 16-year-old
Oh, Rickrolling. Even on Vine, Twitter's app that lets users shoot and share six-second videos, the Web is never gonna give you up. A Cleveland teen-ager ... «CNN, Jun 13»
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YOUTUBERS REACT TO RICKROLL (Ep. #5)
Rickroll EXTRA REACTIONS: http://dft.ba/-4LZI NEW Vids Sun ... RICKROLL your friends! Let's bring it back! ... YouTubers React to Rickrolling YouTube Stars ... «YouTube, Feb 13»

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