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Definition of Slashdot
Slashdot 
verb - transitive
- to overwhelm a web site with massive amounts of traffic due to Slashdot linking to it.
My website got Slashdotted yesterday.
- See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.
- See more words with the same meaning: to break, ruin, destroy.
Last edited on Sep 13 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 26 2009.
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Other terms relating to 'computer slang': | |
| Definitions include: to pester or annoy. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "in real life". | |
| Definitions include: in a non-computing context, to search. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "you are not a lawyer." | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "you have been trolled", i.e. you have fallen victim to an internet troll. | |
| Definitions include: in the user interface of a software product (including websites,) something that displays the locations that the user has recently viewed or visited. | |
| Definitions include: said of functionality in computing, created without cost (or with very little cost) from existing functionality. | |
| Definitions include: a hack or involving a hack. | |
| Definitions include: methamphetamine. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "cannot be unseen". | |
| Definitions include: to use one or more kludges (as described in the noun sense) to solve a problem. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "on my God, what the fuck." | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "my life is great". | |
| Definitions include: "Internet BF", i.e. "Internet Boyfriend". | |
| Definitions include: pejorative name for Microsoft Windows. | |
Other terms relating to 'to break, ruin, destroy': | |
| Definitions include: to severely injure (a person) or damage or ruin (a thing.) | |
| Definitions include: stiff, sore. | |
| Definitions include: a bug that makes hardware or software unusable. | |
| Definitions include: to mess up. | |
| Definitions include: great. | |
| Definitions include: to vomit. | |
| Definitions include: to kill or destroy. | |
| Definitions include: to be under the influence of drugs. | |
| Definitions include: to break, to fail. | |
| Definitions include: to break or ruin. | |
| Definitions include: very cold. | |
| Definitions include: in an update or sequel to a video game, to make a weapon weak or weaker, such that it's like a Nerf gun. | |
| Definitions include: ruined. | |
| Definitions include: to lie to. | |
| Definitions include: to break, to fail. | |
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| Definitions include: a situation that could end in multiple outcomes, each of which is equally likely. | |
| Definitions include: to leave behind. | |
| Definitions include: very busy. | |
| Definitions include: exclamation expressing sexual excitement. | |
| Definitions include: to sadden one. | |
| Definitions include: relaxation chant. | |
| Definitions include: a non-notable person. | |
| Definitions include: to betray a person; to "stab a person in the back". | |
| Definitions include: "truth". | |
| Definitions include: Very ugly. |
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