rickroll (English, verb)
expansion: rickroll (third-person singular simple present rickrolls, present participle rickrolling, simple past and past participle rickrolled)
expansion: (transitive)
Senses:
glosses: 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".
tags: transitive
glosses: To surprise or trick (someone) into hearing this song.
tags: broadly
transitive
glosses: To cause (someone) to unexpectedly engage with this song through an indirect method, such as through steganography, sheet music, or by inserting the lyrics into an unrelated context.
tags: broadly
transitive
Forms:
form: rickrolls
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rickrolling
tags: participle
present
form: rickrolled
tags: participle
past
form: rickrolled
tags: past
form: Rickroll
tags: alternative
form: rick-roll
tags: alternative