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dooced

British  
/ duːst /

adjective

  1. slang to be dismissed from one's employment because of what one has written on a website or blog

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of dooced

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

Example Sentences

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I’m dooced glad to hear it, Piron; for your military friend didn’t enlist my fancy at all, and I don’t believe any more of his patriot sarvice than I do in Clinker’s earthquake.

From Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)

It’s like my dooced confounded impudence to say a word.

From By Birth a Lady by Fenn, George Manville

"But road's dooced narrow hereabouts, yet hark—hark how the fellow rides!"

From Peregrine's Progress by Farnol, Jeffery

Did mortal eyes ever see so much dooced loveliness and beauty begad?

From Peregrine's Progress by Farnol, Jeffery

"She's dooced pretty, eh?" whispered the duke to Mrs. De Peyton without taking his eyes from his young countrywoman's face.

From Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)

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