dot-commer, n. orig. U.S.
Brit. /dɒtˈkɒməː/, U.S. /ˌdɑtˈkɑmər/
Forms: 19– dot-commer, 19– dotcommer, 19– dot.commer [Also with capital initial(s).]
[‹ dotcom n. + -er suffix1.]
A person who is (or has been) employed by a dotcom company.
| [1995Re: Mullins-works too Hard in alt.sports.basketball.nba.gs-warriors (Usenet newsgroup) 31 July From: dotcommer{at}aol.com (DotCommer).] 1997 Sunday Gaz.-Mail (Charleston, W. Va.) 19 Jan. p7b Charging on through the digital gremlins is part of this emerging field of communications. Our dot-commers help by clearing jams. 2000 Daily Tel. 23 Mar. (Connected section) 12/5 The caricature of the twentysomething dotcommer,..working 18 hour days while continually plugged into the net and mobile phone, has already become a cliché. 2003 Time Out N.Y. 2 Jan. 142/1 In 2000, a group of her laid-off friends—the first victims of the dot-com bust—gathered for what became, eventually, the Pink Slip Party, where laid-off dot-commers meet to commiserate and possibly hook up with a recruiter or two. |