dot-coma

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English

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noun

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"The lackluster debuts were part of an overall dot-coma that hit the Internet sector in trading yesterday. Amazon.com, RealNetworks, Go2Net, InfoSpace.com and many other of the area's Internet stocks each dropped a few dollars by the close of trading."
"Clearly, eSpeed's connection to Cantor is a unique insurance policy, assuring it won't end up in a dot-coma."
"And if Sweden is coming out of its dot-coma, then so should the rest of the high-tech world."

Blend of dot-com + coma.

dot-comas (plural)

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