rickroll

[Mark Mandel]

I'd seen this word on LiveJournal & elsewhere on the Web but not
understood it, but when a friend of mine wrote on her Facebook page
  "Nancy Pelosi just rickrolled me! *collapses in more helpless laughter*

Then I had to look it up. Google reports about 1,050,000 raw hits for
rickroll*.

UrbanDictionary
(http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rickroll) and
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling) have useful defs.
UrbDict and WP are consistent with each other, but of course with
sources like these you never can tell which of them is copying
another.

>>>>>
1.      rickroll

To post a misleading link with a subject that promises to be exciting
or interesting, e.g. "World of Starcraft in-game footage!" or "Paris
Hilton blows Busta Rhymes' dick" but actually turns out to be the
video for Rick Astley's debut single, "Never Gonna Give You Up". A
variant on the duckroll.[*] Allegedly hilarious.

Ex: ...so instead of getting to beat off to footage of Ann Coulter
getting raped by hyenas, I got rickrolled. What a day!

May 14, 2007
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* duckroll: see below

More-or-less useful variant definitions are numbers
  2. May 6, 2007
 18. May 16, 2007
 25. May 13, 2007


Duckroll
(http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=duckroll)

>>>>>
1.      duckroll

When you get a picture of a duck on wheels, instead of what you
expected to get. Often used on image boards such as 4chan.

Ex: By following a link that promises an upskirt picture of Britney
Spears, you get a picture of a duck on wheels, with the text
"DUCKROLL" written on it.

 Jan 4, 2007
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