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flame bait

flame bait noun: a deliberately provocative posting intended to start a flame war.

Noun

flame bait (uncountable)

  1. (Internet, dated) A deliberately provocative posting intended to start a flame war.

Questions about flame bait

What does flame bait mean?
Flame bait means a deliberately provocative posting intended to start a flame war.
What part of speech is flame bait?
Flame bait is a noun.

Words near flame bait in the dictionary

  1. flamdoodles
  2. flamdoodling
  3. flame
  4. flame aura
  5. flame azalea
  6. flame bait
  7. flame birch
  8. flame cell
  9. flame cells
  10. flame fusion
  11. flame graph

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