Usually means: Deliberately provoking others online anonymously.
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  1. trolling: Merriam-Webster
  2. trolling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. trolling: Vocabulary.com
  4. Trolling, trolling: Wordnik
  5. trolling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. trolling: Wiktionary
  7. trolling: Dictionary.com
  8. trolling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Trolling (fishing), Trolling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Trolling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. trolling: Rhymezone
  12. Trolling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. trolling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. trolling: FreeDictionary.org
  15. trolling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. trolling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. trolling: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trolling: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Trolling: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trolling: NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL

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Definitions from Wiktionary (trolling)

▸ noun:  The act of one who trolls (in various senses of provoking others).
▸ noun:  A fishing technique in which one or more baited fishing lines are dragged by a moving boat. Not to be confused with trawling, which drags a net.

Similar:
trollism, trollage, trollery, fooling, humbugging, tradlarp, trademark troll, patent trolling, tampering, monstering, more...

Opposite:
complimenting, praising, supporting, encouraging

Types:
flamebait, baiting, flaming, more...

Phrases:
patent trolling, Trolling motor, trolling group, more...

Adjectives:
deep, slow, good, successful, fishing, commercial, light, ocean, most, excellent, sea

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Similar:
trollism, trollage, trollery, fooling, humbugging, tradlarp, trademark troll, patent trolling, tampering, monstering, more...

Opposite:
complimenting, praising, supporting, encouraging

Types:
flamebait, baiting, flaming, more...

Phrases:
patent trolling, Trolling motor, trolling group, more...

Adjectives:
deep, slow, good, successful, fishing, commercial, light, ocean, most, excellent, sea

Colors:
    green,     blue,     red,     purple,     black, more...



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