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dogecoin

/ˈdəʊd͡ʒkɔɪn/

dogecoin noun: a cryptocurrency featuring the Shiba Inu from the "doge" meme as its logo.

Noun (1)

dogecoin (countable and uncountable, plural dogecoins)

  1. (uncountable) A cryptocurrency featuring the Shiba Inu from the "doge" meme as its logo.
    • The success of ransomware could be attributed to wide adoption of digital currencies or crypto currencies, such as bitcoin, litecoin ukash, dogecoin, ripple and monero, among others.2017 August 19, Roderick Abad, “Slow Internet speed helping PHL fend off cyber felons”, in Business Mirror
    • The net worth of Markus and Palmer is unknown due to their tendency to stay off social media and online platforms. However, dogecoin was estimated to be worth almost $17billion as of April 14, 2021.2021 April 16, Jacob Bentley-York, “Who are Dogecoin founders Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer?”, in The US Sun, retrieved 28 Apr 2021
  2. (countable) A unit of this currency. Symbols: Ð, DOGE.
    • And there really are a lot of people willing to pay cash (or at least Bitcoins, which are easily converted into cash) for dogecoins.2013 December 26, Timothy B. Lee, “Dogecoins and Litecoins and Peercoins oh my: What you need to know about Bitcoin alternatives”, in Washington Post
    • Litke and Shear say mining that many dogecoins couldn't be accomplished with the hijacked storage devices alone—each has the cryptocurrency mining power of a smartphone, they say.2014 June 17, Andy Greenberg, “Hacker Hijacks Storage Devices, Mines $620,000 in Dogecoin”, in Wired

Noun (2) capitalized: Dogecoin

Dogecoin (countable and uncountable, plural Dogecoins)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of dogecoin.
    • Even Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency that began as a joke with a perpetually surprised Shiba Inu dog for its symbol, has soared almost 1,000 percent over the last week to set a record.2021 February 8, Nathaniel Popper, “Elon Musk and Snoop Dogg Push Cryptocurrencies to Record Highs”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of dogecoin

pluraldogecoins
alternative formDogecoin
pluralDogecoins

Origin of dogecoin

From doge + coin.

Questions about dogecoin

What does dogecoin mean?
Dogecoin means a cryptocurrency featuring the Shiba Inu from the "doge" meme as its logo.
What part of speech is dogecoin?
Dogecoin is a noun.
How do you pronounce dogecoin?
Dogecoin is pronounced /ˈdəʊd͡ʒkɔɪn/.
What is the plural of dogecoin?
The plural of dogecoin is dogecoins.

Words near dogecoin in the dictionary

  1. dogears
  2. dogeate
  3. dogeater
  4. dogeaters
  5. dogeates
  6. dogecoin
  7. dogecoins
  8. doged
  9. dogedom
  10. dogedoms
  11. dogeing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dogecoin (page history and authors); Dogecoin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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