Chegg bait

A near-impossible problem put on engineering or science exams to determine who is using online resources like Chegg. Works best for take home-exams, since a student would be able to Google the problem more easily in a non-proctored environment. A professor will typically enlist a teaching assistant to post a convincing yet erroneous answer on sites like Chegg ahead of time. Also known as a "cheat check".

Joe: "How'd you do question 5 on the thermodynamics exam?"
John: "I found the answer on Chegg. It looked right."
Joe: "You fell for the Chegg bait. The TA posted that answer, and there's an intentional error in it!"

by kgm/s October 15, 2020

queer baiting

When a politician, pundit, or other public figure brings up the completely irrelevant detail about a person's sexuality, true or untrue, as a way of subtly channeling homophobia to attack them.

Compare race baiting

"Oh yeah? Well, Tom Smith, the gay man who supported the new bill has no idea what he is talking about."
"You're queer baiting"

by Lightning Princess January 18, 2008

Butler Bait

The term used to describe an underaged and attractive master of a butler. Such as Alois Trancy and Ciel Phantomhive from Kuroshitsuji. This term is sometimes used by fans of Kuroshitsuji and Kuroshitsuji II.

Alois is totally butler bait to Claude.

by Squidhuggles October 22, 2011

dick bait

Like click bait but purely for men. Those fake accounts who follow you on insta for a day with fit as fuck profile pictures and dodgy links in the bio.

Me: Check her out, she just followed me on ig
Mate: Dude, she got some crazy phishing url.....she's pure dick bait.

by atdotslash October 12, 2015

Fan-baiting

When producers, actors, or studios intentionally provoke or antagonize their audiences in order to generate publicity, create artificial controversy, or deflect genuine criticism, especially in cases of new and expensive productions.

"Amazon is fan-baiting by calling everyone who criticizes Rings of Power racists."
"Didn't Star Wars do the same thing with Kenobi?"

by OkiShisa September 13, 2022

Click-Bait

When a news article or link has a provocative title in order to get you to click on it.
Even though it's actually total sensationalism bullshit.

TITLE
'President Obama loves KKK!?'

"Hey what the fuck, Deshaun you see this shit?"
"Ahah man, that shit's just click-bait!"
*click*
"Obama loves the Krispey Kreme's new special item, 'Krispey Glazed Bear Claws.'"

by John Nostalgia August 2, 2014

bait ball

A school of small fish that clump together as a defence to increase their odds of survival against predators. Anchovies, Sardines, and Herring are an example of types of fish that use this tactic.

hey look! it's a under water clowd! no bra, its a fricken bait ball.

by fish bra October 17, 2009