It means what you think it means: bait for clicks. It's a link which entices you to click on it.
The "bait" comes in many shapes and sizes, but it is usually intentionally misleading and/or crassly provocative. Clicking will inevitably cause disappointment. Clickbait is usually created for money.
One common type is adverts and spam, such as you might find on a random website or in your Facebook feed. Such clickbait usually leads to a site which tries to sell you something or possibly extort you, by withholding the promised "bait". Typical examples include: a sexy picture which promises to show more; suggestive and intriguing captions, like "you won't believe what this hot girl did"; stories designed to inflame people, such as by playing on political passions, like "woman demands more benefits to pay for comfort eating"; and claimed weight loss methods or body building methods, often with some "weird easy trick".
The second main variety is headlines to media sites which make money from page views. Common offenders are Buzzfeed, and Gawker and its affiliated sites. The headlines are designed to cause maximum provocation or interest, but as a result are frequently extremely exaggerated or flat out lies, and the articles themselves are often just as shoddy.
The "bait" comes in many shapes and sizes, but it is usually intentionally misleading and/or crassly provocative. Clicking will inevitably cause disappointment. Clickbait is usually created for money.
One common type is adverts and spam, such as you might find on a random website or in your Facebook feed. Such clickbait usually leads to a site which tries to sell you something or possibly extort you, by withholding the promised "bait". Typical examples include: a sexy picture which promises to show more; suggestive and intriguing captions, like "you won't believe what this hot girl did"; stories designed to inflame people, such as by playing on political passions, like "woman demands more benefits to pay for comfort eating"; and claimed weight loss methods or body building methods, often with some "weird easy trick".
The second main variety is headlines to media sites which make money from page views. Common offenders are Buzzfeed, and Gawker and its affiliated sites. The headlines are designed to cause maximum provocation or interest, but as a result are frequently extremely exaggerated or flat out lies, and the articles themselves are often just as shoddy.
Thanks for wasting my time with this lying clickbait, random Gawker editor. Congratulations, you've gotten your two cents out of me. Now off you go and spend it on your favourite brand of cheap gin - the one you swill at night as you silently shed tears whilst contemplating your miserable, tortured existence and failed journalism career.
by Gloone February 23, 2015
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2.) the fifth circle of hell
2.) the fifth circle of hell
"Have you played the cookie clicker game yet?"
"Yeah. I quit when satan starting possessing the background."
"Yeah. I quit when satan starting possessing the background."
by don't touch me August 20, 2013
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Just another word for clickety clackety; that is making noise through typing on a computer keyboard.
Darren: Two tickets to Denver, Colorado please!
Norah (Flight Agent): *clickety-clack*. No problem sir. I found a flight. You're all booked!
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Kelly: Could you please find out how many PTOs I have left this year?
Katherine (H.R. Agent): Sure thing! *clickety-clack* It says here you got one week left.
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Jason: *clickety-clack* The Sword of Shannara! That's the first book in the Shannara series.
Laura: What about the author's other series about the lawyer who becomes a king?
Jason: *clickety-clack* The Magic Kingdom of Landover. Here, take the keyboard. The library search engine is quite easy to use. What is yet another series by that same author?
Laura: *clickety-clack* The Word and the Void.
Norah (Flight Agent): *clickety-clack*. No problem sir. I found a flight. You're all booked!
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Kelly: Could you please find out how many PTOs I have left this year?
Katherine (H.R. Agent): Sure thing! *clickety-clack* It says here you got one week left.
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Jason: *clickety-clack* The Sword of Shannara! That's the first book in the Shannara series.
Laura: What about the author's other series about the lawyer who becomes a king?
Jason: *clickety-clack* The Magic Kingdom of Landover. Here, take the keyboard. The library search engine is quite easy to use. What is yet another series by that same author?
Laura: *clickety-clack* The Word and the Void.
by OffBeatDrummer November 23, 2020
Get the Clickety-clack mug.A YouTuber that is cursed. And he accepted that he's going to hell. He goes through different cursed subreddits. Such as r/NoahGetTheBoat r/GachaLifeCringe r/TheClickOwO (his own sub reddit) and some others. He's also part of Sad Milk.
I'm honestly surprised that there isn't a definition for him yet honestly. Well here's one now!
I'm honestly surprised that there isn't a definition for him yet honestly. Well here's one now!
by Anxious Yankee October 18, 2020
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The description and the thumbnail of these videos are worse. Usually containing massive arrows pointing to something blurred out, and having a crap ton of cancerous emojis.
The description and the thumbnail of these videos are worse. Usually containing massive arrows pointing to something blurred out, and having a crap ton of cancerous emojis.
FACETIMING DAME TU COSTIA IN A ROBLOX, MINECRAFT, MCDONALD’S WHILE ORDERING A NUMBER 15 BURGER KING FOOT LETTUCE AND SCREAMING GUCCI GANG WITH BOSSBABY AND PENNYWISE AT 3AM WHILE SPINNING ILLEGAL FIDGET SPINNERS OMG OMG OMG😱😱😱 (GONE SEXUAL) (NOT CLICKBAIT)
by iGood July 28, 2018
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B:No, I don't.
A:You better check her videos out, they are wholesome!
B:No, I don't.
A:You better check her videos out, they are wholesome!
by tharealjoe April 6, 2020
Get the ClickForTaz mug.A computer user who has no idea what they are doing randomly clicks around hoping the solution will magically appear.
A Geek Squad technician came out to fix my computer today. I watched him cowboy click for about an hour. Afterwards, he told me the solution was to buy a new computer.
by Caligari76 September 8, 2009
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