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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of troll.

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Examples

  • The notion that this emerg­ing global con­scious­ness could be fil­tered, reg­u­lated and con­trolled is painful beyond imagining.

    Supernova: Whole New Internet? « Snarkmarket 2005

  • Like people, demons get hungry and in the 1950s Police-heads "trolled" Bill Cosey's Hotel and Resort when it was still the best-known vacation spot for colored people on the East Coast.

    Hate Pinckney, Darryl 2003

  • I've been here for a good year now, and regularly checked up for the last couple of months, and never has he "trolled".

    Joystiq 2010

  • I've been here for a good year now, and regularly checked up for the last couple of months, and never has he "trolled".

    Joystiq 2010

  • It wasn't just me who got in contact after the programme - Brabazon says she received over 600 supportive emails the following week from people who don't comment online for fear of being 'trolled' or labelled 'luddites', but were appreciative of her stance.

    News from Journalism.co.uk 2009

  • You've said some things that I myself have been trying to convey and have been "trolled" for as people assume that I am "defending" his poor, irresponsible decision.

    KSL / U.S. / National 2009

  • He trolled through dictionaries and short stories by German romantics to apprehend it.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • The Husky also has a consistent action when trolled at a slow speed.

    Favorite Lures of the Walleye Guides 2009

  • Crank baits trolled parallel to the shore or over sand flats in the DIRTY water where wind is blowing waves into the shore or shallows is good too regardless of the depth.

    whats a good bait to use for walleye? ive never caught one but we now have land at a lake that is stocked with some. 2009

  • Maybe we are being trolled by the tea-bagger equivalent of Hannibal Lecter (except this ones all brutality and no brains).

    Think Progress » VIDEO: Bret Baier Interviewing Obama Vs. Bret Baier Interviewing Bush 2010

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