rickroll

Meanings

Verb

• To mislead (someone) into following a hyperlink that leads to something other than what is claimed, especially to something bizarre or amusing, and literally or originally to a YouTube video of Rick Astley's song “Never Gonna Give You Up”.

Noun

• An act of or attempt at rickrolling.

Origin

• Coined by an anonymous user on the site 4chan in 2007, from Rick + roll, combining UK pop singer Rick Astley's given name with a reference to a 2005 prank on the site that replaced the string egg with duck, famously resulting in duckroll where eggroll was intended.