[Ads-l] Slang Sense of "Catfishing"

[Shapiro, Fred]

"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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