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trolling

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trolling
(1) Surfing, or browsing, the Web.

(2) Posting derogatory messages about sensitive subjects on newsgroups and chat rooms to bait users into responding.

(3) Hanging around in a chat room without saying anything, like a "peeping tom."
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Then is a fife heard trolling within the lodge on the inspiring topic of the "British Grenadiers"; and as the evening closes in, a gruff inflexible voice is heard to say, while two men pace together up and down, "But I never own to it before the old girl.
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context
Colonel Killigrew all this time had been trolling forth a jolly bottle song, and ringing his glass in symphony with the chorus, while his eyes wandered toward the buxom figure of the Widow Wycherly.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
As thus he walked down a shady lane he saw a tinker coming, trolling a merry song as he drew nigh.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Pyle, Howard View in context
 
 
 
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