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rickroller

noun

Etymology

From rickroll + -er.

  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”
  7. compounded as rickroll — “Rick + duckroll”
  8. formed as rickroller — “rickroll + -er”

Definitions

  1. Someone who rickrolls

    Someone who rickrolls; a person who tricks people into listening to Rick Astley's song "Never Gonna Give You Up".

    • Even though the "cost" is small — you can hit the back button as soon as the YouTube title comes up — the price to the rickroller is high.
    • Rick Astley's viral music video has been removed from YouTube, leaving hundreds of so-called 'rickrollers' broken-hearted.
    • Dave Grohl is one of the coolest, most accomplished musicians in rock history — and he can now add "Master Rickroller" to his long line of awe-inspiring titles, right below "Literal Rock Royalty."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rickroller. 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