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troll
A supernatural being of varying size, now especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges.
Quick reference
Word Facts
- Word length
- 5
- Starts with
- T
- Ends with
- L
- Contains
- ROL
- Scrabble score
- 5
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
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Pronunciation
Meaning
Definitions
noun
A supernatural being of varying size, now especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges.
An ugly person of either sex, especially one seeking sexual experiences.
Optical ejections from the top of the electrically active core regions of thunderstorms that are red in color that seem to occur after tendrils of vigorous sprites extend downward toward the cloud tops.
noun
An instance of trolling, especially, in fishing, the trailing of a baited line.
A person who provokes others (chiefly on the Internet) for their own personal amusement or to cause disruption.
verb
To saunter.
To trundle, to roll from side to side.
To draw someone or something out, to entice, to lure as if with trailing bait.
(by extension) To fish using a line and bait or lures trailed behind a boat similarly to trawling; to lure fish with bait.
To angle for with a trolling line, or with a hook drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.
To fish in; to try to catch fish from.
To stroll about in order to find a sexual partner.
“He spends most of his waking hours trolling on WIRE.”
(to post inflammatory material so as) to attempt to lure others into combative argument for purposes of personal entertainment and/or gratuitous disruption, especially in an online community or discussion
(by extension) To incite anger (including outside of an Internet context); to provoke, harass or annoy.
noun
The act of moving round; routine; repetition.
A song whose parts are sung in succession; a catch; a round.
A trolley.
verb
To move circularly; to roll; to turn.
To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking.
To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly, freely or in a carefree way.
In context
Example Sentences
He spends most of his waking hours trolling on WIRE.
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