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hotlinking

hotlinking noun: directly embedding or linking to a resource on another server, such as an image or video, so that it appears to be part of the linking website — considered a violation of netiquette.

Noun

hotlinking (uncountable)

  1. (Internet) Directly embedding or linking to a resource on another server, such as an image or video, so that it appears to be part of the linking website — considered a violation of netiquette.

Origin of hotlinking

From hot + linking.

Questions about hotlinking

What does hotlinking mean?
Hotlinking means directly embedding or linking to a resource on another server, such as an image or video, so that it appears to be part of the linking website — considered a violation of netiquette.
What part of speech is hotlinking?
Hotlinking is a noun.

Words near hotlinking in the dictionary

  1. hotlines
  2. hotlining
  3. hotlink
  4. hotlinker
  5. hotlinkers
  6. hotlinking
  7. hotlinks
  8. hotlist
  9. hotlisted
  10. hotlisting
  11. hotlists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hotlinking (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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