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rickroll
verb
to sabotage an internet link and direct the viewer to a view of Rick Astley’s 1987 video “Never Gonna Give You Up” US
The term (and prank) was confined to elite video gamers in 2007 and then in 2008 spread to the internet and drew attention from mainstream media.- — TheFecundComing, urbandictionary.com, 6 May 2007
- The most popular version of rolling is “Rickrolling,” where the link a user clicks redirects to a page that shows the music video for Rick Astley’s 1980s hit, “Never Gonna Give You Up.” — Evansville (Indiana) Courier & Press, p. D1, 21 March 2008
- — Pamela Munro (Editor), U.C.L.A. Slang 6, p. 83, 2009
- The most recent major achievement of internet goers with nothing better to do was the “rickroll” and voting Rick Astley “Best Act Ever” in the MTV music awards. — TheStatutoryApe, pyshicsforum.com, 14 June 2009
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