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clickbaits

clickbaits is the plural of clickbait.

clickbaits is the third-person singular simple present indicative of clickbait.

Meaning of clickbait

Noun

clickbait (countable and uncountable, plural clickbaits)

  1. (Internet, derogatory) 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.
    • 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
    Synonyms:
    link bait, shitbait

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Questions about clickbaits

What is clickbaits the plural of?
Clickbaits is the plural of clickbait.

Words near clickbaits in the dictionary

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

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