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dot com

dot com is the alternative form of dotcom.

dot com is the alternative form of .com.

Meaning of dotcom

Noun

dotcom (plural dotcoms)

  1. (dated) A company whose business is based around a website or primarily via the Internet.
    • Even mainstream, primetime narratives in the domestic sphere, for instance, now provide unremarkable reflections on the now naive and overly optimistic promises of cybertech, the high-techs, and dotcoms.2003, Anna Everett, John T. Caldwell, New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality

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Particle

dot com

  1. (Internet, dated, humorous) Used as an sentence-final intensifier to affirm one's judgement.
    • Extra work, baby. Free food, a paycheck, and celebrity sightings. It's the bomb dot com.2014, Lisi Harrison, License to Spill, →ISBN, page 152
    • infoatomic bomb ¶ i’m the ultimate hazard ¶ the end of the world dot com ¶ i have all the answers ¶ and you can ask me for answers ¶ so ask me for answers[…]2024, 8485, blackwinterwells, Murrumur, “ANTHROPOL”, in software gore

Forms of dot com

pluraldot coms

Questions about dot com

What does dot com mean?
Dot com means used as an sentence-final intensifier to affirm one's judgement.
What is dot com the alternative form of?
Dot com is the alternative form of dotcom.
What part of speech is dot com?
Dot com is a particle.

Words near dot com in the dictionary

  1. dot blot
  2. dot blots
  3. dot bomb
  4. dot bombs
  5. dot cake
  6. dot com
  7. dot coms
  8. dot connecting
  9. dot connection
  10. dot connector
  11. dot connectors

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