Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
dox or doxx [doks] ExamplesWord Origin verb (used with or without object), doxed or doxxed, dox·ing or dox·xing.
- Slang. to publish the private personal information of (another person) or reveal the identity of (an online poster) without the consent of that individual: The professor was doxed by a bitter student who failed her class. Several players doxed the programmer because the final version of the game disappointed them.
Origin of dox 2000–05; alteration of docs, short for documents Related formsdox·ing, dox·xing, noun Examples from the Web for dox Contemporary Examples of dox
Victims of careless ‘dox’ attempts say the consequences are miserable.
Web Sleuths Get It Wrong Again in Ferguson
Tim Mak
August 15, 2014
It is even worse when online actors “dox”—or publicly release the private information of—the incorrect person.
Web Sleuths Get It Wrong Again in Ferguson
Tim Mak
August 15, 2014
Historical Examples of dox
The dox are all fools, but one: and the pashints are lyres, ivery man Jack.
Charles Reade
My private name is Dox, but a King can’t be called by his private name; he has to take one that is official.
L. Frank Baum
King Dox thanked Dorothy fervently for getting him the invitation to come to Oz, which he had all his life longed to visit.
L. Frank Baum
Congressional timber was scarce on account of the test oath and the Fourteenth Amendment, so Dox secured a nomination.
Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama
Walter L. Fleming