dox

or doxx

[ doks ]

/ dɒks /

verb (used with or without object), doxed or doxxed, dox·ing or dox·xing.

Slang. to publish the private personal information of (another person) or reveal the identity of (an online poster) without the consent of that individual: The professor was doxed by a bitter student who failed her class. Several players doxed the programmer because the final version of the game disappointed them.

Words nearby dox

dowse, dowser, dowsing rod, dowson, dowy, dox, doxastic, doxepin, doxographer, doxology, doxorubicin

Origin of dox

2000–05; alteration of docs, short for documents

OTHER WORDS FROM dox

dox·ing, dox·xing, noun

Examples from the Web for dox

Victims of careless ‘dox’ attempts say the consequences are miserable.
Web Sleuths Get It Wrong Again in Ferguson|Tim Mak|August 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It is even worse when online actors “dox”—or publicly release the private information of—the incorrect person.
Web Sleuths Get It Wrong Again in Ferguson|Tim Mak|August 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Congressional timber was scarce on account of the test oath and the Fourteenth Amendment, so Dox secured a nomination.
Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama|Walter L. Fleming
My private name is Dox, but a King can't be called by his private name; he has to take one that is official.
The Road to Oz|L. Frank Baum

The dox are all fools, but one: and the pashints are lyres, ivery man Jack.
Hard Cash|Charles Reade
King Dox thanked Dorothy fervently for getting him the invitation to come to Oz, which he had all his life longed to visit.
The Road to Oz|L. Frank Baum