clickbaiter

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noun

One who creates or publishes clickbait.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

nounclickbaiter (plural clickbaiters)

plural clickbaiters

  1. derogatoryOne who creates or publishes clickbait.

    But as a professional clickbaiter, I am qualified to rank them based on how annoying I find their public persona.

    2016 October 26, “The 11 smartest people to appear on 'The Big Bang Theory'”, in Fox News
    2 more examples

    A leading marketeer for Procter & Gamble in Asia has revealed that she had “generations of training” in how to make Facebook adverts, but that the company still became a “clickbaiter”.

    2017 September 13, Eleanor Dickinson, “P&G Asia brand director: 'We were clickbaiters – and a giant duck still got more likes than we did."”, in Mumbrella Asia

    While that may have the ring of a clickbaiter headline, the concept has always been part of traditional Indian cooking.

    2018 July 9, Meghana Rajeshwar, “Don't trash it”, in Deccan Herald

Origin

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APA

clickbaiter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clickbaiter

MLA

“clickbaiter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clickbaiter. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “clickbaiter,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clickbaiter.

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