The act of moving your mouse pointer carefully around a web page to avoid nuisance pop-up ads. This technique requires some skill and a sharp eye to dodge "hover-over-and-pop-up-ads" embedded in a news article or column.

"Come'on! I just want to see who won the game, but these pop-ups keep trying to sell team jerseys. Looks like I'm gonna need my advoiding skills for this site..."

advoiding by HarryP April 28, 2008

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Aspoiding

The act of consciously avoiding discussing the plot details of a piece of media while in the presence of someone who has not experienced it. Alternatively, the act of consciously avoiding or ignoring information regarding media you have not experienced.

A portmanteau of "avoiding" and "spoiler".

"Mike hasn't seen Star Wars yet, so we're aspoiding it around him."
"I can't afford to see the new Star Wars until the end of the week... it's tough aspoiding it on the internet."
"I haven't seen that yet. Please aspoid it if you can."

Aspoiding by Tacheon Black December 26, 2019

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adrolling

Adrolling is the practice of cloaking a commercial as an interesting viral video to trick everyone into watching an ad.

The term was derived from the rickrolling phenomenon and was coined by Molly Wood on Buzz Out Loud.

1) "DUDE... DON'T WATCH THAT VIDEO, YOU'LL GET ADROLLED!"
2) Old Spice engaged in adrolling to get everyone to watch their ads.

adrolling by qsdfghjklm September 10, 2010

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Droiding out

When something you are using is malfunctioning like an Android always does.

Yo Jason your WiFi is droiding out.

Droiding out by Trizzytreyz January 11, 2019

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