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dooced

Definitions

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  • adverb dated, dialect Deuced.
  • verb Internet slang Dismissed from one's job as a result of one's actions on the Internet.

Etymologies

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deuce

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Coined in 2002 from the pseudonym of American blogger Heather Armstrong.

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Examples

  • In my own career, I have -- to use the popular blogging term -- been "dooced," so I have some sympathy for what Juan Williams is going through.

    Juan Williams Fired For All-Too-Common Offense In Media: Defaming Muslims The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Denise at BlogHer relates the story of former blogger Madrigal of Agony who was inexplicably "dooced" out of her disability coverage for blogging about her daily pain.

    Saturday Slumgullion #6 Kay Olson 2006

  • Denise at BlogHer relates the story of former blogger Madrigal of Agony who was inexplicably "dooced" out of her disability coverage for blogging about her daily pain.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Kay Olson 2006

  • It was pretty gutsy to write about the authorship thing - I hope you're not "dooced" by it and hopefully you know that term in blogland.

    Nick post-doc 2005

  • You’re dooced, which is another way to say you’re screwed.

    things fall apart 2006

  • The incident fired up the blogging community and earned her a celebrity blogger status creating a coinage that is all her own (to be "dooced" is to be fired for something you write online).

    Vancouver Photography, Web Strategiest & Creative Director 2009

  • Ha, when you were dooced, the paparazzi were the least of your worries!

    question 2008

  • Was it before you were dooced or did the media attention in July 2006 bring you to the attention of the publishing world?

    Q&A 2008

  • "Olim meminisse juvabit", * (* It will be pleasant to remember former troubles - Virgil (not Seneca).) and dooced appropriate, too.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • How did you get your job with the English firm (the one that dooced you)?

    Q&A 2008

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  • frogapplause commented on the word dooced

    To get dooced is to lose one's job because of one's website. The term was coined by blogger Heather B. Armstrong, after she was fired for writing stories about her colleagues on her blog Dooce.com.

    November 7, 2011