Dot-commer

//dɒtˈkɒmə// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who works (or worked) for a dotcom company.

    "Maxine has joined her sister Brooke's state-of-the-art health club Megareps around the corner but isn't quite used yet to this nightly spectacle of yups on treadmills, plodding to nowhere while watching CNN or the sports channels, laid-off dotcommers who aren't at strip clubs or absorbed into massively multiplayer online games […]"

Example

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"Maxine has joined her sister Brooke's state-of-the-art health club Megareps around the corner but isn't quite used yet to this nightly spectacle of yups on treadmills, plodding to nowhere while watching CNN or the sports channels, laid-off dotcommers who aren't at strip clubs or absorbed into massively multiplayer online games […]"

Etymology

From dot-com + -er.

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