Oil-Bait

Oil-Bait(Verb): The act of Oil-baiting.

“In a chess tournament, Jimmy Johnson utilised a variety of delirious insults and slander such as calling his opponent a “Good Boy” in order to oil-bait him, distracting him from imminent check-mate on the board.”
“Jimmy Johnson utilised his gift of being a superb Oil-Baiter and his natural ability to seamlessly Oilfield-Bait his friend by calling him a “six-seven skibidiums”.”

by Neckhurts67 September 17, 2025

Baiting

To not follow through with a plan.

Person A: Is she still coming to the party?
Person B: Nah I don’t think she is. She’s baiting.

by Amina Cocoa April 9, 2021

comment bait

a shameful tactic that content creators use to get mindless NPC's to comment on their videos. The content will usually have zero context, contain blatant lies or something they pulled straight out of their ass to invoke controversy. The more comments they receive, the better the chances are of the video going viral. Similar to clickbait and rage bait except the goal is to confuse the viewers into getting them to interact with each other. avoid.

B: "this guy really posting saying he is god and was reincarnated in china. he also has gta 7.
A: "bro, that shit is obv comment bait. gtfoh."
B: "you right, he ain't worth my time."

by AllBlackLex August 21, 2024

Fic Baiting (v)

When an author intentionally acts like their work is complete until the bottom of the last page, baiting interested readers and inflating their fic stats to further the illusion.

An author I really like just started fic baiting (v) all their recent works and now I don't think I can trust them anymore because nothing they've actually written is finished despite the tags.

by VerbatimToxicology April 3, 2023

Browser Baiting

Browser Baiting is when you do internet searches for strange and odd things that you do not want just to trick the browser int displaying ads for those things.

I did a bunch of browser baiting last night. Looked for "eel shoes", "rubber volcanos" and "plastic pants". Getting some seriously odd stuff today.

by pseudowonfuji May 27, 2018

memory baiting

To masturbate to one's thoughts, especially when pornography is not available.

Shit! My phone died five minutes in, guess I'll just start memory baiting instead.

by Boofling November 11, 2019

Grammar Baiting

A late Argument move where someone intentionaly spels somthing wrong to see if they will correct it because if they do its a big sign they are running out of proper points to argue with

John was losing the argument until he used grammar baiting on steve, making him correct him

by Daddy Omega Thot March 12, 2019