Phrase Hound found 16 phrases and 18 compound words that contain baiting. The most common are listed below. Open baiting in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 16
- race baitingThe use of racially derisive language, actions, or other forms of communication in order to set people against each other, often in the context of white and black people.
- Jew-baitingThe harassment, vilification or provocation of Jews, or incitement against them, for anti-Semitic reasons.
- bull-baitingAlternative form of bullbaiting: An old blood sport involving the baiting of bulls with dogs.
- link-baitingAlternative spelling of linkbaiting: The practice of creating content that attracts a lot of inbound links and generates buzz.
- queer-baitingAlternative form of queerbaiting: The practice of creating homoerotic tension between two characters in a narrative work (particularly a television series) without the intention of ever developing it into an actual same-sex relationship or …
- rat-baitingA blood sport involving the setting of dogs upon rats in a rat pit.
- red-baitingThe (ad hominem) practice of accusing someone of being a communist, socialist or anarchist with the intention of discrediting their political views.
- gender baitingThe enforcement of gender norms by disparaging or marginalizing those that violate them.
- bear-baitingAlternative form of bearbaiting: A blood sport in which dogs are set upon a chained bear
- goon baitingIn Nazi Germany, the practice among prisoners of war of deliberately annoying the guards, for example by allowing them to eavesdrop on misleading conversations.
- rage baitingpresent participle and gerund of rage bait
- suicide baitingMalicious encouragement of suicide.
- tip baitingIn fast food delivery, the practice of promising a large tip (usually on a delivery app) so that the deliverer feels incentivised to swiftly reach their destination, only to deliberately decrease or cancel the tip once the delivery is …
- baiting uppresent participle and gerund of bait up
- Eve baitingThe harassment of women, especially foreign, or dressed as such, by groups of men.
- baiting and switchingpresent participle and gerund of bait and switch
Compound words 18
- bearbaitingA blood sport in which dogs are set upon a chained bear
- queerbaitingThe practice of creating homoerotic tension between two characters in a narrative work (particularly a television series) without the intention of ever developing it into an actual same-sex relationship or explicitly addressing the …
- scambaitingThe practice of posing as a potential victim of a scam, in order to waste the scammer's time and resources.
- bonerbaitingThe act of exciting or encouraging someone to get an erection by saying or doing erotic or sexually arousing things.
- bullbaitingAn old blood sport involving the baiting of bulls with dogs.
- pedobaitingThe act or practice of luring pedophiles or child molesters on the Internet.
- prebaitingThe practice of laying harmless bait so that vermin or fish become accustomed to it, prior to laying poisoned or hooked bait
- linkbaitingThe practice of creating content that attracts a lot of inbound links and generates buzz.
- clickbaitingpresent participle and gerund of clickbait
- fearbaitingpresent participle and gerund of fearbait