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duckroll

noun

Etymology

From duck + roll. In 2006, Christopher "Moot" Poole implemented a wordfilter replacing egg with duck on 4chan, causing instances of eggroll on the site to become duckroll. This inspired an anonymous 4chan user to create an image macro featuring a duck with wheels edited onto its body and the caption "duckroll." The image was later used to prank 4chan users, who were lured into clicking what was presented as an interesting link, but instead lead to the "duckroll."

  1. derived from rollāre
  2. derived from rotula — “a little wheel”
  3. derived from rotulāre — “to roll; to revolve”
  4. derived from roller
  5. inherited from rollen
  6. compounded as duckroll — “duck + roll”

Definitions

  1. A bait-and-switch Internet prank involving the sharing of a link that leads to a picture…

    A bait-and-switch Internet prank involving the sharing of a link that leads to a picture of a duck on wheels instead of what is claimed.

    • You told me that it was a really nice picture, but all I see is a duckroll.
    • Duckroll became a silly prank meme when 4chan users started linking their friends to an ostensibly cool site, only to be met with a picture of a duck on wheels with the word duckroll written on it.
    • Examples of bait-and-switch images and videos include The Hampster Dance, Duckroll, Rickroll, […]

  2. To prank (someone) in this fashion.

    • Internet pranksters keep duckrolling me!
    • So you’d send a friend a link with, “Hey, check out these new screenshots of the Playstation^([sic]) 4,” but when they clicked on the link, BAM, duckroll’d.
    • This spurred some people who had been duckrolled to duckroll others.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for duckroll. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA