silkpost
silkpost noun: a social media post, typically on Reddit, intended to, often humorously, deceive the reader about the Metroidvania video game Hollow Knight: Silksong (2025).
Noun
silkpost (plural silkposts)
- A social media post, typically on Reddit, intended to, often humorously, deceive the reader about the Metroidvania video game Hollow Knight: Silksong (2025).
Verb
silkpost (third-person singular simple present silkposts, present participle silkposting, simple past and past participle silkposted)
- To make a silkpost.
Forms of silkpost
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | silkposts |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | silkposts |
| present participle | silkposting |
| past participle | silkposted |
| past | silkposted |
Origin of silkpost
Blend of Silksong + -post. The format originated due to the long development cycle of Hollow Knight: Silksong with scarce updates from its makers, with users deceiving others into believing that there had been news on the game.
Questions about silkpost
- What does silkpost mean?
- Silkpost means a social media post, typically on Reddit, intended to, often humorously, deceive the reader about the Metroidvania video game Hollow Knight: Silksong (2025).
- What part of speech is silkpost?
- Silkpost can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of silkpost?
- The plural of silkpost is silkposts.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: silkpost (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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