Bait may refer to:

General

Bait (luring substance) Bait is any appetizing substance used to attract prey when hunting or fishing, e.g. food in a mousetrap. Fishing The term is especially used with regard to catching fish. Traditionally, nightcrawlers, insects, and smaller fish have been used ...

, bait as a luring substance *

Bait-and-switch Bait-and-switch is a form of fraud used in retail sales but also employed in other contexts. First, customers are "baited" by merchants' advertising products or services at a low price, but when customers visit the store, they discover that the a ...

, a form of fraud *

Bait car A bait car, also called a decoy car, hot car, or trap car, is a vehicle used by law enforcement agencies to capture car thieves or thieves who steal items from cars. The vehicles are modified with audio/video surveillance technology, and can ...

, vehicle rigged by the police to catch auto thieves *

Bait money Bait money or bait bills are bills with known serial numbers, used by banks to aid the tracing of bank robbers. The serial numbers are recorded by the bank either by making a copy or by listing in a log book. During a bank robbery, if a robber ha ...

Baiting (blood sport) Baiting is a blood sport where an animal is worried or tormented against another animal, for the purpose of entertainment or gambling.Hoage, Robert J., Roskell, Anne and Mansour, Jane, "Menageries and Zoos to 1900", in ''New World, New Animals: Fr ...

, using dogs to stress or torment a chained or confined animal or human * Fan-baiting (or fanbaiting), a form of

marketing Marketing is the process of exploring, creating, and delivering value to meet the needs of a target market in terms of goods and services; potentially including selection of a target audience; selection of certain attributes or themes to emph ...

with the intent of exciting artificial controversy, garnering publicity, and explaining away the negative reviews of a new and often highly anticipated production *

Fishing bait Fishing bait is any substance used to attract and catch fish, e.g. on a fishing hook. Bait items are both selected from and placed within the environment to achieve enhanced prey capture success. Traditionally, fishing baits are natural fish food ...

, bait used for fishing * Flamebait, the intentional posting of inflammatory content to a public Internet discussion group *

Jailbait Jailbait is slang for a person who is younger than the legal age of consent for sexual activity and usually appears older, with the implication that a person above the age of consent might find them sexually attractive. The term ''jailbait'' i ...

, person below the age of consent with whom sexual intercourse can constitute statutory rape *

Oscar bait Oscar bait is a term used in the film community for movies that appear to have been produced for the sole purpose of earning nominations for Academy Awards or "Oscars", as they are commonly known. They are usually released just in advance of Oscar ...

Queerbaiting Queerbaiting is a marketing technique for fiction and entertainment in which creators hint at, but then do not depict, same-sex romance or other LGBTQ+ representation. The purpose is to attract (" bait") an LGBTQ+ or straight ally audience with ...

Race-baiting Incitement to ethnic or racial hatred is a crime under the laws of several countries. Australia In Australia, the Racial Hatred Act 1995 amends the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, inserting Part IIA – Offensive Behaviour Because of Race, Colour ...

Red-baiting Red-baiting, also known as ''reductio ad Stalinum'' () and red-tagging (in the Philippines), is an intention to discredit the validity of a political opponent and the opponent's logical argument by accusing, denouncing, attacking, or persecuting ...

, the act of persecuting people as communist, socialist, or anarchist *

Scam baiting Scam baiting (or scambaiting) is a form of internet vigilantism primarily used towards advance-fee fraud, IRS impersonation scam, technical support scams, pension scams, and consumer financial fraud. Scambaiters pose as potential victims to was ...

Film

* ''Bait'' (1950 film), British crime film by Frank Richardson * ''Bait'' (1954 film), American noir film by Hugo Haas * ''Bait'' (2000 film), American-Canadian action comedy ** ''Bait'' (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the 2000 action-comedy film, ''Bait'' * ''

Bait 3D ''Bait 3D'' is a 2012 3D horror disaster film directed by Kimble Rendall based on the screenplay by John Kim and Russell Mulcahy. It featured Sharni Vinson, Phoebe Tonkin, Xavier Samuel, Julian McMahon, Cariba Heine, Alex Russell, Lincoln ...

'', 2012 3D horror disaster film * ''Bait'', a 2014 British film directed by

Dominic Brunt Dominic Adam Brunt (born 15 April 1970) is an English actor, director and producer, best known for portraying the role of Paddy Kirk in the ITV (TV channel), ITV soap opera ''Emmerdale''. For his role as Paddy, Brunt has been nominated in variou ...

* ''Bait'' (2019 film), British drama film by Mark Jenkin

Other entertainment

* Bait Bazi, a verbal game and a genre of Urdu poetry * ''Bait'' (novel), a 2009 novel by Sieds Jetze * "Bait" (''CSI: Miami''), an episode of the television series, ''CSI: Miami'' * "Bait" (''The Unit''), an episode of the television series, ''The Unit'' * "Live Bait" (''The Walking Dead''), the sixth episode of the fourth season of the television series ''The Walking Dead'' * ''Live Bait'' (album), a 1997 live music album of The Arrogant Worms

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