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like4like

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Internet, uncountable

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History

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.

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  • Chinese Mandarin: 互贊 /互赞 (hùzàn) — Translations