dooced

having lost a job because of something you put in an Internet weblog

dooced

(duːst)

adj

to get dooced slang chiefly US to be dismissed from one's employment because of what one has written on a website or blog

[C21: after the web address of the first person to experience this]

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References in classic literature

It's dooced interestin', and no mistake about that.

View in context

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