[Ads-l] Slang Sense of "Catfishing"
Shapiro, Fred
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sun Jan 7 13:00:41 UTC 2024
"Catfishing" is a slang term for "The practice of creating a fictional online persona intending to lure a person into a false relationship." I would welcome any information as to early print occurrences of this term, and also early print occurrences of the related term "catfish," both as noun and verb.
Fred Shapiro
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