Chadfishing

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of creating a fake online profile to catfish someone (typically a woman) by pretending to be an attractive man. uncountable

    "Chadfishing encapsulates the Incel worldview’s diagnosis of a hypocritical social environment which claims to believe in feminist, egalitarian principles but which in fact facilitates degenerate, looks-obsessed behaviour."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of Chadfish form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

More examples

"Chadfishing encapsulates the Incel worldview’s diagnosis of a hypocritical social environment which claims to believe in feminist, egalitarian principles but which in fact facilitates degenerate, looks-obsessed behaviour."

Etymology

From Chadfish + -ing.

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