Dot-coma
noun, slang
noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 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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