click bait
Noun
Meaning
click bait (uncountable)
Alternative form of clickbait
click-bait (uncountable)
Alternative form of clickbait
Alternative names
click-bait
Examples
But once you get to the click-bait headline, "Price Tag of Bernie Sanders's Proposals: $18 Trillion," you could see what a steaming pile of manure the story is.
My imaginary kids are playing video games and learning about life from cartoons, and all the while ads and click-bait stories about celebrities pop up on screens all over the house.
On Twitter, Växjö fans dismissed the report as “wishful thinking” from Evertsson and “click-bait.”
Perhaps most important, reader support is key to our ability to maintain our status as a nonprofit journalistic venture, ensuring our stories are never influenced by click-bait or advertising pressures.
To Dr. Maria Dixon-Hall, the professor behind the survey, that’s called click-bait, and it runs rampant when on matters of race and sexuality.