Bait

Bait may refer to:

• Bait (luring substance), bait as a luring substance
• Bait and switch, a form of fraud
• Bait car, vehicle rigged by the police to catch auto thieves
• Dog-baiting, using dogs to worry or torment a chained or confined animal
• Fishing bait, bait used for fishing
• Flamebait, the intentional posting of inflammatory content to a public Internet discussion group
• Red-baiting, the act of persecuting people as communist, socialist, or anarchist
• Scam baiting
• Bait (1950 film), a 1950 British film
• Bait (2000 film), a 2000 film starring Jamie Foxx
  • Bait (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the 2000 action-comedy film, Bait
• Bait (2012 film), a 2012 film starring Julian McMahon
• Bait Bazi, a verbal game and a genre of Urdu poetry
• "Bait" (CSI: Miami), an episode of the television series, CSI: Miami
• Bait (novel), a 2009 novel by Alex Sánchez
• "Bait" (The Unit), an episode of the television series, The Unit

See also

• The Bait (disambiguation)
• Beit, a metrical unit of Arabic, Iranian and Urdu poetry
• Jailbait or Johnny bait, American English slang for a person who is younger than the legal age of consent