The act of making a comment in a YouTube video to draw comments from Trolls and Shills in the comment section so that they may identified and blocked.
by Cheeky Monkees April 13, 2019
by Im lit October 15, 2016
Coal bait is when an individual makes a coal post on the internet, especially on twitter, that is meant to bait other users into interacting with the post and increasing their profile's exposure.
"This libtard on my for you page is always posting dumb arguments and it's triggering me into quote tweeting and debating them."
"Dude, you should know better than to interact with coal bait."
"Dude, you should know better than to interact with coal bait."
by my butt itchy March 25, 2024
Dave: "Hey Jon, why is this video the same punchline over and over again? Isn't it supposed to be relatable?"
Jon: "No, he's using relatability for bait, it's relatable-bait, Dave."
Jon: "No, he's using relatability for bait, it's relatable-bait, Dave."
by FancyPhobia February 29, 2024
When an individual (quite often a man's significant other) asks for something, but when ridiculed about the preposterous nature of the request, they begin to claim they were joking about it. Whereas if you had said you were willing to fulfil the request, they would have happily one through with it.
"Jamie can I have that £3000 ring from that jewellery shop?"
"Sophie are you out of your mind? No I can't afford it!"
"I was only joking!"
"No you were ground-baiting."
"Sophie are you out of your mind? No I can't afford it!"
"I was only joking!"
"No you were ground-baiting."
by UrbanVocabLad January 22, 2016
by blickyrick September 01, 2023
What a cat does by eating cheese and then hiding silently near a mouse-hole for a furry varmint to come out looking for da source of da delicious aroma.
Garfield is shown to easily catch multiple mice --- i.e., one underneath each foot --- without even trying very hard, and so it's possible dat he was "waiting with baited breath", and so da mice just flocked to him. Or of course, it could also merely be dat said speedy specimens of omnivorous opportunity have learned by now dat said tubby tabby never actually eats da mice he catches or otherwise harms them in any way, and so they are less watchful 'n' wary around Jon's house than they might be in other people's domiciles where da resident felines actually may hunt said rodents for real.
by QuacksO February 27, 2024