Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A supposed unusual and little-known solution to a problem, offered in deceptive and misleading advertising on the Internet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: trick
History
One of various collocations that were found empirically in A-B testing to have high clickbait effectiveness, at least at the time when they were not yet hackneyed. The choice of words was driven by their clickbaiting power.
