Shiba Inu

[shee-buh ee-noo]

noun

1. one of a Japanese breed of small to medium-sized dogs having a coarse outer coat of usually red, black and tan, or cream color with a light belly and facial markings, and a long, bushy tail that curls over its back, originally bred for hunting.

Example Sentences

I had no trouble comprehending that some people on the internet had developed a coin inspired by a picture of a Shiba Inu, or that it came to be called Doge, or that Dogecoin 1 got popular enough to reach a nominal market capitalization of more than $70 billion.

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The coins can be traced back to 2013, when software engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer launched dogecoin, a digital currency based on a meme involving a Shiba Inu dog.

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Even older, more popular meme coins, such as dogecoin and Shiba Inu, lost around 14% each.

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The Department of Government Efficiency, named after Musk’s favorite meme of a Shiba Inu and its shitcoin cryptocurrency Dogecoin, will be led by Musk and fellow billionaire businessman Vivek Ramaswamy.

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From the sound of that press release, it sure seems like they’ll just be turning in a glorified recommendations report, written by a combination of A.I. chatbots and underpaid interns, to present to Trump on the occasion of America’s semiquincentennial, represented alongside the Dogecoin Shiba Inu.

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