breadcrumbing

Verb

breadcrumb (third-person singular simple present breadcrumbs, present participle breadcrumbing, simple past and past participle breadcrumbed)

1. (transitive) To sprinkle breadcrumbs on to food, normally before cooking.
   • All this breadcrumbing finished, you can put the meat on a grid over a baking dish and leave it until you are ready to cook it.2009, Elizabeth David, Omelette and a Glass Of Wine, →ISBN
2. (intransitive) To add navigational breadcrumbs to (a web page or user interface).
   • Along those same lines, creating separate folders can enable you to use "breadcrumbing," which is another navigation aid (discussed in the section "Determining How to Organize the Information," later in this chapter).2003, Sybex Inc., HTML complete, page 155
3. To use clues or enticements to lead someone in the desired direction.
   • The process of breadcrumbing is the means by which a game writer can lead the player forward with a trail of clues, or the level designers can lead the player via more physical symbols.2007, Chris Mark Bateman, Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames, page 89

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