dot-commer

English

Alternative forms

• dotcomer, dotcommer

Etymology

From dot-com +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɒtˈkɒmə/

Noun

dot-commer (plural dot-commers)

1. (computing) Someone who works (or worked) for a dotcom company. [from 1990s]
   • 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 448:

     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 […]