one weird trick

noun

Etymology

One of various collocations that were found empirically in A-B testing to have high clickbait effectiveness on humans, at least at the time when they were not yet hackneyed. The choice of words was driven by their clickbaiting power.

Definitions

  1. A supposed unusual and little-known solution to a problem, offered in deceptive and…

    A supposed unusual and little-known solution to a problem, offered in deceptive and misleading advertising on the Internet.

    • The same questions over and over, as if somehow this time I would give them a different answer, something easy that would solve everything. One Weird Trick to Cure Autism!

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for one weird trick. 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