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1. To mislead (someone) into following a seemingly innocuous hyperlink, or sometimes a code, that leads to a (w) video of (w)'s song "(w)".

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2. (quote-journal) Let the Internet pranking begin! YouTube, capitalizing on the resurgence of a popular meme, has booby-trapped each of the “featured videos” on its homepage. Click on any of the showcased clips and you’ll be taken instead to a cheesy video of pop singer Rick Astley singing his late-’80s hit song, “Never Gonna Give You Up.”

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6. To surprise or trick (someone) into hearing this song.

7. (quote-web)|passage=With a single tap on its screen, the device can take over any one of the millions of televisions connected to a Google Chromecast digital media player that happens to be within Wi-Fi range and force it to play Astley's canonical “Never Gonna Give You Up” music video—or any other equally annoying or embarrassing YouTube clip of the prankster’s choosing. (..) But Dan Petro nonetheless imagines a rickmote-wielding hacker moving slowly through around a dense residential area and wirelessly rickrolling one hapless Chromecast owner after another.|title=Rickroll Innocent Televisions With This Google Chromecast Hack|date=2014-07-16|author=Andy Greenberg

8. (quote-journal)" to Rickroll the parade.

9. (quote-web) has "Rickrolled" an audience, all in the name of climate activism. Thunberg danced to Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" on Saturday, in front of a crowd at Climate Live, a youth-led concert for climate action.

10. To cause (someone) to unexpectedly engage with this song through an indirect method, such as through steganography, music, or by inserting the lyrics into an unrelated context.

11. (quote-web), (w)|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221127190453/https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/04/13/135385998/rickrolled-or-how-one-politician-overcame-partisan-divide-to-pull-a-prank|date=13 April 2011|passage=Yesterday, Korva pointed to an amusing video of lawmakers Rickrolling the Oregon State House. (..) So what Oregon lawmakers did was include snippets of the song's lyrics into their speeches on the House floor and then stich it together to make the tune.

12. An act of or attempt at rickrolling.

13. (quote-journal) problem with what I'm saying is that it sounds like a recipe for being really boring and humdrum. Links, links, links. I'm not really; the rickroll has a value, to spike peoples' inflated expectations, or remind them—wittily—of their weaknesses: (..)

14. (quote-book) But perhaps the ultimate Rick Roll occurred on April Fool's Day in 2008, when YouTube rigged up every feature video on the home page to play Astley's infamous clip.

15. (quote-journal)|magazine=(magazine)|Time|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220525171730/http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/printout/0,29239,1894410_1893837_1894180,00.html|archivedate=25 May 2022|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Time Warner Publishing|date=30 April 2009|issn=0928-8430|oclc=749127914|passage=I find some Rickrolls really funny. Have you seen the one with President (w)? Someone has cut up his speeches and put them together so that he sings "Never Gonna Give You Up." It's totally amazing. I find it bonkers, by the way!

16. (quote-book) It's the originator of countless memes, including Lolcats and my personal favourite, Rickrolls.

17. (quote-web) called (w)'s decision to trot out an array of military medal winners before addressing his long-held questions about President (w)'s birth a "political Rick-roll." (..) "While these American heroes are, you know, people that we should all show reverence and respect, they are much greater men than Rick Astley, it’s hard to imagine this as anything other than a political Rick-roll," Tapper said.

18. (quote-book) One well-known tactic is the ‘rick roll’ meme, wherein someone is led to believe that a certain action, for example, clicking a particular hyperlink, will be relevant to his aims but instead the victim is unintentionally directed to a music video for the 1987 song "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley.

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20. (quote-book) The rick-roll in the code seems juvenile and unprofessional.