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like4like

like4like noun: on social media services, the practice of liking a person's post or page in exchange for said person mutually liking one's post or page back, sometimes with the goal of artificially inflating one's like count.

Noun

like4like (uncountable)

  1. (Internet) On social media services, the practice of liking a person's post or page in exchange for said person mutually liking one's post or page back, sometimes with the goal of artificially inflating one's like count.

Origin of like4like

Abbreviation of like for like, itself a clipping of like for a like back or a similar phrasing; otherwise analysable as like (“to show approval of something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote”) + 4 (“abbreviation of for”) + like.

Questions about like4like

What does like4like mean?
Like4like means on social media services, the practice of liking a person's post or page in exchange for said person mutually liking one's post or page back, sometimes with the goal of artificially inflating one's like count.
What part of speech is like4like?
Like4like is a noun.

Words near like4like in the dictionary

  1. like-for-like
  2. like-gendered
  3. like-minded
  4. like-mindedness
  5. like-positioned
  6. like4like
  7. likeabilities
  8. likeability
  9. likeable
  10. likeableness
  11. likeablenesses

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