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slashdots

slashdots is the third-person singular simple present indicative of slashdot.

Meaning of slashdot

Verb

slashdot (third-person singular simple present slashdots, present participle slashdotting, simple past and past participle slashdotted)

  1. (Internet, dated) To render a website slow or unusable via the unusually large number of page requests that result from a link on a very popular web site.
    • And that guy is supposed to be thrilled to lose both his inbound and outbound connections and e-mail for the joy of having been slashdotted.2006, Matthew Strebe, Michael Moncur, Charles Perkins, The Best of SlashNOT: 2002 - 2005, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 99
    Synonyms:
    fark

Questions about slashdots

What is slashdots the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Slashdots is the third-person singular simple present indicative of slashdot.

Words near slashdots in the dictionary

  1. slashable
  2. slashdom
  3. slashdot
  4. Slashdot effect
  5. Slashdot effects
  6. slashdots
  7. slashdotted
  8. Slashdotter
  9. Slashdotters
  10. slashdotting
  11. slashdottings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slashdots (page history and authors); slashdot (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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