rickroll

to be shown a video of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" through a sly or not-so-sly link to a video on popular video sharing sites.

Haha! Great job disguising that rickroll!

by Packless May 28, 2007

rickroll'd

to be given a fake internet adress leading to the music stylings of rickroll instead of what the link said it led to

never gonna give you up
never gonna let you down
never gonna run around and search for you

OMFG u told me that link was to a halo 3 trailer and you rickroll'd me!

by kiljoy June 5, 2007

rickrolled

v.
1. To be bamboozled into following a hyperlink to Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" 80s music video on YouTube. Typically found on Internet discussion forums where the unsuspecting user clicks on the aforementioned link, cleverly disguised as something pertinent to the non-Rick-related discussion at hand.

The exact origins of this practical joke and subsequent naming are unknown but "rickrolling" first appeared early to mid May in 2007.

Son of a BITCH. This is the 70th time I've been rickrolled tonight!

by SaqB June 11, 2007

rickrolltubation

An auto inflicted Rickroll. A Rickroll masturbation if you will.

Yesterday I was setting up a prank on my brother, and I accidentally rickrolltubated. I 'm a rickrolltubation victim.

by pegasus-san October 13, 2015

manual rickroll

In the heat of the moment you forget to line up an actual version of "Never Gonna Give You Up" when rickrolling someone, so you just start singing the song yourself. The overall shoddyness and ill preparation of the manual rickroll prank actually make it much funnier than the automated version.

fred: hello?

ginger: uh, never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down...

fred: ah yes, the manual rickroll.

by el sean o May 15, 2009

Getting Rickrolled

This is a video about what getting rickrolled is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Here's a video of people getting rickrolled: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5a0jTc9S10
Here's another link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SoNH07Slj0

"that idiot keeps getting rickrolled"

by Derpasorus_Rex February 15, 2020

International rickroll day

July 28th (or 29th for anyone UTC+3 or above), the day Rick Astley's never gonna give you up reached 1,000,000,000 views

Person a: oh I ponder what this link has in store for me, a person clicking a link in july 28th
Person b: ohohohoho I got you today's international rickroll day
Person a: ohohohohohoohohohoh yo got me gooooood ohohohohohohohoho

by OzHaMagniv July 29, 2021