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doxar

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Etymology

    From dox + -ar. First attested in the 2010s.

    Pronunciation

     

    • Hyphenation: do‧xar

    Verb

    doxar (first-person singular present doxo, first-person singular preterite doxei, past participle doxado)

    1. (transitive, Brazil, Internet slang) to doxx (to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet)
      • 2014 December 5, @holygriever, Twitter (post), archived from the original on 5 February 2025:
        [] Unfollow não tira pedaço. Radical é mandar ameaça de morte e doxxar. []
        Unfollowing won't hurt. [What's really] radical is sending death threats and doxxing.
      • 2019 August, “Equilibrando visibilidade e segurança” (chapter 2), in Coletivo Planètes, transl., Formando um grupo de afinidade antifa: um manual, Brazil, translation of Forming An Antifa Group by It's Going Down, archived from the original on 22 August 2024, page 7:
        Ter um website sugere que seu grupo é mais legítimo, e essa ferramenta deve ser usada especialmente se você quiser doxar fascistas locais ou colocar declarações de grupo.
        [original: Websites imply that your group is more legitimate, and should be used especially if you want to doxx local fascists or put up group statements.]
      • 2021 May 21, @raiserinho, Twitter (post), archived from the original on 5 February 2025:
        O cara foi doxado por uma hamburgueria []
        Dude's got doxxed by an hamburgery.
      • 2022 December 16, “Twitter suspende contas de jornalistas que escreveram matérias sobre Elon Musk [Twitter suspends accounts of journalists that wrote articles about Elon Musk]”, in O Estado de S. Paulo, São Paulo: Grupo Estado, archived from the original on 16 December 2022:
        Ele reiterou suas alegações de que os jornalistas banidos o estavam “doxando”, quando relataram o banimento das contas acusadas de rastrear o seu jatinho.
        He reiterated his allegations that the banned journalists were “doxxing”, when they reported the ban of accounts accused of tracking his personal jet.
      • 2024 August 31, @Maga_Coach, X (formerly Twitter) (post), archived from the original on 5 February 2025:
        Acabei de ver esse podcast, o Renatão tá certo. Nunca disse que o Alan queria doxar quem ajudou a filha dele, mas acabou acontecendo por ignorância.
        I just watched this podcast, Renetão was right. He never said that Alan wanted to doxx who helped his daughter, but it ended up happening by ignorance.

    Conjugation

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