Meanings
present singular third person slashdots · participle present slashdotting · participle past slashdotted · past slashdotted
- InternetdatedcomputingTo render a website slow or unusable via the unusually large number of page requests that result from a link on a very popular web site.
Sites that have been slashdotted report traffic between several hundred and several thousand hits per minute.
2005, Ivan Ristic, Apache Security, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 3962 more examples
And that guy is supposed to be thrilled to lose both his inbound and outbound connections and e-mail for the joy of having been slashdotted.
2006, Matthew Strebe, Michael Moncur, Charles Perkins, The Best of SlashNOT: 2002 - 2005, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 99Oh shit, thinks Manfred, better buy some more server time. He can recognize the signs: He's about to be slashdotted.
2005, Charles Stross, Accelerando, New York: Ace Books, →ISBN, archived from the original on 19 May 2008; republished London: Orbit Books, 2005, →ISBNSynonyms: fark
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo render a website slow or unusable via the unusually large number of page requests that result from a link on a very popular web site.
Origin
After Slashdot, a site that commonly links to other, smaller sites.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
slashdot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slashdot
“slashdot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slashdot. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “slashdot,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slashdot.
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