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dooced
 adj.— «The act of being canned from your job for what you have posted in a blog has recently been coined being “dooced” after an employee got fired for what she wrote about co-workers on her website dooced.com.» —“Businesses finding blogs a useful promotion tool” by David Canton London Free Press (Ontario, Can.) Nov. 27, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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