troll
/tɹɑl/ verb C2- To move (something, especially a round object) by, or as if by, rolling; to bowl, to roll, to trundle.
- To roll; also, to turn round and round; to rotate, to spin, to whirl.
- To move or walk at a leisurely pace; to ramble, to saunter, to stroll.
- Chiefly of a man: synonym of cruise (“to stroll about to find a (male) sexual partner”).
- To say (something) lightly and quickly, or in a deep, resounding voice.
- To speak lightly and quickly, or in a deep, resounding voice.
- To fish in (a place) using a running fishing line (that is, a line with a hook on the end which is drawn along the water surface, possibly a line which would originally have been spooled on to a troll (etymology 2, noun etymology 2, noun sense 8.1)).
- To attract or draw out (someone or something); to allure, to elicit, to entice, to lure.
Plural troll · He/she/it trolls · Past trolled · Past participle trolled · -ing form trolling
Verb forms
- Base form
- troll
- He/she/it
- trolls
- Past
- trolled
- Past participle
- trolled
- -ing form
- trolling
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