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likejacking

noun

Etymology

Blend of like + hijacking; compare clickjacking.

  1. derived from jaque
  2. derived from jacke
  3. inherited from jakke
  4. suffixed as jacker — “jack + er”
  5. compounded as hijack — “highway + jacker”
  6. suffixed as hijacking — “hijack + ing”
  7. compounded as likejacking — “like + hijacking”

Definitions

  1. The malicious practice of tricking users of a social networking website into "liking"…

    The malicious practice of tricking users of a social networking website into "liking" something they did not intend to like.

    • No risk of "likejacking", "clickjacking", spammy apps or anything else that's so prevalent these days.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for likejacking. 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