English Explanatory Dictionary

one weird trick

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A supposed unusual and little-known solution to a problem, offered in deceptive and misleading advertising on the Internet.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-one weird trick.wav

Word forms

one weird trick

Etymology

One of various collocations that were found empirically in A-B testing to have high clickbait effectiveness on humans, at least at the time when they were not yet hackneyed. The choice of words was driven by their clickbaiting power.

Related words

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