scrobble

Meanings

Verb

• To waylay, kidnap or steal.
• To publish one's media consumption habits to the Internet via software, in order to track when and how often certain items are played.

Noun

• A datum or the aggregate data collected by this means.

Origin

• 1927, in the book The Midnight Folk by John Masefield.
• From the name of the Internet service Audioscrobbler.