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• present tense form of troll (3rd person singular).

trolls

Cultural  

1. In Norse mythology, repulsive dwarfs who lived in caves or other hidden places. They would steal children and property but hated noise. The troll in the children's story “The Three Billy Goats Gruff,” for example, lives under a bridge and is enraged when he hears the goats crossing the bridge.

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Example Sentences

Trolls, spreading AI-generated images, said I was faking it, something I first learned about as I was about to be wheeled into the operating room.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

Trolls have now taken aim at her world tour, which began in Mexico on 23 April, criticising her dance moves and performances.

From BBC • May 3, 2025

Timberlake, who voices character "Branch" in the "Trolls" film franchise, had shared a video of the quintet in the recording studio, working on the song.

From Reuters • Sep. 29, 2023

The orca plays a significant role in Dambo’s “Northwest Trolls: Way of the Bird King” fairy tale, the culmination of a project spanning 10 trolls that Dambo has created across the United States this summer.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2023

Trolls generally converse in grunts that appear to constitute a crude language, though some have been known to understand and even to speak a few simple human words.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling