What (who) is trolls - definition

SUPERNATURAL BEING IN NORSE MYTHOLOGY AND SCANDINAVIAN FOLKLORE

Trolls; Trollkonor; Torll; Troll (Iceland); Troll (mythology); Trollish; 🧌

trolls

Evil cousins of a sockpuppet, the only thrill in their meaningless lives is to sign on to the internet and look for ways to cause trouble and incite flame wars. Disruptive and generally vile, trolls are one of the greatest negatives on any public forum. Anonymity is their great refuge, keeping them from being hunted and banished for good.
The trolls lurks in the ether, waiting to make their flames and assaults.

Trolls (franchise)

AMERICAN COMPUTER-ANIMATED FRANCHISE

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Trolls is an American animated media franchise created by DreamWorks Animation, inspired by the successful line of Troll doll toys created by Thomas Dam. The franchise consists of two feature films, Trolls, released in 2016, and Trolls World Tour released in 2020, two holiday television specials: Trolls Holiday and Trolls: Holiday in Harmony and two animated series: Trolls: The Beat Goes On!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolls_(franchise)

Trolls (video game)

VIDEO GAME FROM EARLY 1990'S

Trolls is a Troll doll-themed platform game developed and published by Flair Software for the Amiga, MS-DOS and Commodore 64 in 1992. In 1994 it was ported to the CD32.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolls_(video_game)

Wikipedia

Troll

A troll is a being in Nordic folklore, including Norse mythology. In Old Norse sources, beings described as trolls dwell in isolated areas of rocks, mountains, or caves, live together in small family units, and are rarely helpful to human beings.

In later Scandinavian folklore, trolls became beings in their own right, where they live far from human habitation, are not Christianized, and are considered dangerous to human beings. Depending on the source, their appearance varies greatly; trolls may be ugly and slow-witted, or look and behave exactly like human beings, with no particularly grotesque characteristic about them.

Trolls are sometimes associated with particular landmarks in Scandinavian folklore, which at times may be explained as formed from a troll exposed to sunlight. Trolls are depicted in a variety of media in modern popular culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll

Pronunciation examples for trolls

1. trolls.

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2. and fight trolls.

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3. for my internet trolls.

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4. TAMRON HALL: The trolls.

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5. is because patent trolls

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Examples of use of trolls

1. Watch as expert appraiser Tim Luke trolls crawl spaces for gems.

2. Think of the trolls of Norway, the elfin folk and little people of the Celtic West.

3. These "patent trolls" deter innovation by keeping products off the market and tied up in court, they argue.

4. May 22 2006 03:00 The US technology industry, it seems, should not celebrate its liberation from the so–called "patent trolls" too soon.

5. Meanwhile, some companies, known as "patent trolls", have caused controversy by buying disused patents and then suing companies that use them just to win legal settlements.