rickroller
(Internet slang) Someone who rickrolls; a person who tricks people into listening to Rick Astley's song "Never Gonna Give You Up".
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(Internet slang) Someone who rickrolls; a person who tricks people into listening to Rick Astley's song "Never Gonna Give You Up".
Even though the "cost" is small — you can hit the back button as soon as the YouTube title comes up — the price to the rickroller is high.
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(originally, Internet slang) To mislead (someone) into following a seemingly innocuous hyperlink, or sometimes a QR code, that leads to a YouTube video of Rick Astley's song "Never Gonna Give You Up".
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