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one weird trick

one weird trick noun: a supposed unusual and little-known solution to a problem, offered in deceptive and misleading advertising on the Internet.

Noun

one weird trick

  1. (informal) A supposed unusual and little-known solution to a problem, offered in deceptive and misleading advertising on the Internet.
    • The text itself read only slightly less formally and considerably more like a legitimate online resource than what Helen had expected: either a string of gibberish or else something comparable to the meaningless hyperbole of online ads promising to reveal one weird trick to weight loss, sexual...2015, Gin Jones, A Draw of Death: Helen Binney Mysteries book #3
    • The same questions over and over, as if somehow this time I would give them a different answer, something easy that would solve everything. One Weird Trick to Cure Autism!2016, Jennifer Noonan, No Map to This Country: One Family's Journey through Autism

Origin of one weird trick

One of various collocations that were found empirically in A-B testing to have high clickbait effectiveness, at least at the time when they were not yet hackneyed. The choice of words was driven by their clickbaiting power.

Questions about one weird trick

What does one weird trick mean?
One weird trick means a supposed unusual and little-known solution to a problem, offered in deceptive and misleading advertising on the Internet.
What part of speech is one weird trick?
One weird trick is a noun.

Words near one weird trick in the dictionary

  1. one ups
  2. one way
  3. one way or another
  4. one way or other
  5. one way or the other
  6. one weird trick
  7. one who hesitates is lost
  8. one will know the reason why
  9. one with another
  10. one woman's trash is another woman's treasure
  11. one word leads to another

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