RIP troll

English

Noun

RIP troll (plural RIP trolls)

  1. (Internet) An Internet troll who leaves deliberately offensive messages on online memorials to the deceased.
    • 2015, Whitney Phillips, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, page 84:
      Furthermore, they illustrated RIP trolls' deeply privileged (not to mention paternalistic) worldview, which the trolls subsequently used to justify what were still often quite destructive behaviors.
    • 2018, Jill Anne Morris, The Internet as a Game:
      He uses trolling techniques to fight back against trolls that he particularly finds malevolent—specifically pedophiles and RIP trolls.
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