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clickbaiting

clickbaiting is the present participle and gerund of clickbait.

Meaning of clickbait

Verb

clickbait (third-person singular simple present clickbaits, present participle clickbaiting, simple past and past participle clickbaited)

  1. To add clickbait to a web page; to direct clickbait at someone.
    • Whether they're acts of clickbaiting or dumbness, internet headlines routinely mischaracterize quotes, inaccurately paraphrase statements, and misuse specific terms, all to make readers click.2015, How to Write About Music, →ISBN, page 60

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Questions about clickbaiting

What is clickbaiting the present participle and gerund of?
Clickbaiting is the present participle and gerund of clickbait.

Words near clickbaiting in the dictionary

  1. clickbaiter
  2. clickbaiters
  3. clickbaitier
  4. clickbaitiest
  5. clickbaitiness
  6. clickbaiting
  7. clickbaitness
  8. clickbaits
  9. clickbaity
  10. clickbaityness
  11. clickbeetle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clickbaiting (page history and authors); clickbait (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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