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| | # {{intransitive}} By extension, to search (for), to draw out, to entice, to lure. | | # {{intransitive}} By extension, to search (for), to draw out, to entice, to lure. |
| | #: '''1906''': ''It was necessary to '''troll''' them along two years with the hope of employing their usual methods, in order to get them to a place too far from their starting-point for retreat.'' — [[w:Thomas W. Lawson (businessman)|Thomas William Lawson]], [http://books.google.com/books?id=IoQDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA690 "Fools and Their Money: Some After-Claps of Frenzied Finance"], ''Everybody's Magazine'' '''XIV'''(5) May 1906, p. 690 | | #: '''1906''': ''It was necessary to '''troll''' them along two years with the hope of employing their usual methods, in order to get them to a place too far from their starting-point for retreat.'' — [[w:Thomas W. Lawson (businessman)|Thomas William Lawson]], [http://books.google.com/books?id=IoQDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA690 "Fools and Their Money: Some After-Claps of Frenzied Finance"], ''Everybody's Magazine'' '''XIV'''(5) May 1906, p. 690 |
| - | # {{slang}}{{intransitive}} To stroll about in order to find a sexual partner. {{defdate|from 20th c.}} | + | # {{slang}} {{intransitive}} To stroll about in order to find a sexual partner. {{defdate|from 20th c.}} |
| | #: ''I am '''trolling''' for custom, said the actress to the bishop.'' | | #: ''I am '''trolling''' for custom, said the actress to the bishop.'' |
| | # {{intransitive}} To disrupt the operation of an online community, particularly by luring others into combative argument. {{defdate|from late 20th c.}} | | # {{intransitive}} To disrupt the operation of an online community, particularly by luring others into combative argument. {{defdate|from late 20th c.}} |
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