linkjack
v.— «Occasionally, I will see my TechRepublic material on someone else’s blog. It may include my name and my title. Sometimes, it even has a reference to TechRepublic. However, there often isn’t a URL reference or link to the original TechRepublic location. This practice, known as “linkjacking,” should generally be avoided.» —“10 ways to help your users enhance their online credibility” by Calvin Sun Tech Republic: 10 Things Aug. 11, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
It was a dark and stormy night. So begins the long and increasingly convoluted prose of Edwards Bulwer-Lytton’s best-known novel. Today the annual Bulwer-Lytton Contest asks contestants for fanciful first sentences that are similarly...
Deb in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, says that when her mother was disappointed or annoyed she’d say Wouldn’t that just cork you? The idea here is that in the same way that a cork that stops up a bottle, an unexpected or irritating event...