like4like

Meanings

1. On social media services, the practice of liking a person's post or page in exchange for said person mutually liking one's post or page back, sometimes with the goal of artificially inflating one's like count.

Etymology

Abbreviation of like for like, itself a clipping of like for a like back or a similar phrasing; otherwise analysable as like (“to show approval of something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote”) + 4 (“abbreviation of for”) + like.