Bait may refer to:

General

* Bait (luring substance), 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, vehicle rigged by the police to catch auto thieves * Bait money *

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, 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 *

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

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 * ''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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