dot-commiserate
verbEtymology
Blend of dot-com + commiserate.
Definitions
To seek solace with other people left jobless by the dot-com bubble collapse.
- An Internet marketing firm called Thehiredguns.com sponsors pink-slip parties where casualties can get together and "dot-commiserate."
- (The original, ancestral pink slip parties date to 1910, but became known to modern-day workers in the late 1990s, when downsized tech sector employees got together to dot-commiserate.)
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