Dot-coma

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The collapse of a dot-com or of the dot-com bubble. slang

    "The lackluster debuts were part of an overall dot-coma that hit the Internet sector in trading yesterday. Amazon.com, RealNetworks, Go2Net, InfoSpace.com and many other of the area's Internet stocks each dropped a few dollars by the close of trading."

Example

More examples

"The lackluster debuts were part of an overall dot-coma that hit the Internet sector in trading yesterday. Amazon.com, RealNetworks, Go2Net, InfoSpace.com and many other of the area's Internet stocks each dropped a few dollars by the close of trading."

Etymology

Blend of dot-com + coma.

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