duckroll
duckroll noun: a bait-and-switch Internet prank involving the sharing of a link that leads to a picture of a duck on wheels instead of what is claimed.
Noun
duckroll (plural duckrolls)
- A bait-and-switch Internet prank involving the sharing of a link that leads to a picture of a duck on wheels instead of what is claimed.
- You told me that it was a really nice picture, but all I see is a duckroll.
- Duckroll became a silly prank meme when 4chan users started linking their friends to an ostensibly cool site, only to be met with a picture of a duck on wheels with the word duckroll written on it.2011, Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web, page 60
Verb
duckroll (third-person singular simple present duckrolls, present participle duckrolling, simple past and past participle duckrolled)
- To prank (someone) in this fashion.
- Internet pranksters keep duckrolling me!
- So you’d send a friend a link with, “Hey, check out these new screenshots of the Playstation^([sic]) 4,” but when they clicked on the link, BAM, duckroll’d.2011, Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web, page 60
Examples of duckroll in a sentence
- Examples of bait-and-switch images and videos include The Hampster Dance, Duckroll, Rickroll, […]2015, Jamie Bartlett, The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld, page 251:
- This spurred some people who had been duckrolled to duckroll others.2011, Sharon Kleinman, The Media and Communication Dictionary: A Guide for Students, Educators, and Professionals, page 91:
- Before it was know as rickrolling, it was known as duckrolling, which is the same thing, but instead of going to the Astley video, you end up looking at a picture of a duck with wheels.2015 June 23, Ana Samways, “Sideswipe: June 24: A lesson in rickrolling”, in New Zealand Herald:
Forms of duckroll
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | duckrolls |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | duckrolls |
| present participle | duckrolling |
| past participle | duckrolled |
| past | duckrolled |
Origin of duckroll
From duck + roll. In 2006, Christopher "Moot" Poole implemented a wordfilter replacing egg with duck on 4chan, causing instances of eggroll on the site to become duckroll. This inspired an anonymous 4chan user to create an image macro featuring a duck with wheels edited onto its body and the caption "duckroll." The image was later used to prank 4chan users, who were lured into clicking what was presented as an interesting link, but instead lead to the "duckroll."
Words formed from duckroll
- duckroll duel
- rickroll
Questions about duckroll
- What does duckroll mean?
- Duckroll means a bait-and-switch Internet prank involving the sharing of a link that leads to a picture of a duck on wheels instead of what is claimed.
- How do you use duckroll in a sentence?
- Examples of bait-and-switch images and videos include The Hampster Dance, Duckroll, Rickroll, […]
- What part of speech is duckroll?
- Duckroll can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of duckroll?
- The plural of duckroll is duckrolls.
Words near duckroll in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: duckroll (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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