doxx

English

Alternative forms

• dox

Etymology

Phonetic respelling of docs, which is a short form of documents.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɒks/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɑks/
• Rhymes: -ɒks

Verb

doxx (third-person singular simple present doxxes, present participle doxxing, simple past and past participle doxxed)

1. (Internet, slang) To publish personal information (of an individual) without their consent.
   • 2012 October 29, Danah Boyd, “Truth, Lies, and ‘Doxxing’: The Real Moral of the Gawker/Reddit Story”, in Wired‎^[1]:

     The amorphous hacktivist collective known as “Anonymous” decided to make a spectacle of the situation by publishing personally identifiable information on – “doxxing” – Todd’s stalker.

   • 2013, Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous, unnumbered page:

     In that frame of mind, the worst thing that can happen will always be online. Being doxxed or ridiculed, for example, outweighs the offline risks of wasted time, poor health, or arrest.

   • 2014, Jamie Bartlett, The Dark Net‎^[2], page 15:

     Anonymous said: shit, I hope no one doxxes her. She actually delivered. She seems like a kind girl.
     Anonymous replied: dude get a grip she gave her first name, her physician's full name, and even the dormitory area she lives in she wants to be found.
     Anonymous replied: She is new. Any girl who uses signs or writes names on her body is clearly new to camwhoring, so they really don't know what they're getting themselves into.

   • 2014, E. C. Myers, The Silence of Six, unnumbered page:

     “Evan doxxed everyone in Dramatis Personai. Those guys aren't just 'offline.'” Max said. “They're dead.”
     PHYREWALL laughed.
     “What's funny about that?” Max asked.
     “He couldn't have doxxed everyone,” PHYREWALL said.
     “He doxxed you, Nat,' Max said.

   • 2022 December 16, Bernhard Warner, quoting Elon Musk, “Musk Faces Growing Anger Over Twitter Ban of Journalists”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN:

     In a Twitter Spaces discussion, Mr. Musk defended the decision to block the journalists. “You doxx, you get suspended, end of story,” he said, and then abruptly left the call.

2. (Internet, slang) To reveal the operator of an anonymous online account without their consent.

Related terms

• haxx

Translations

to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 起底 (hei² dai²)

  Mandarin: 人肉 (zh) (rénròu), 開盒／开盒 (zh) (kāihé) (Internet slang)

• Finnish: doxxata
• German: doxen (de)
• Hungarian: doxol, doxxol
• Japanese: 晒し (sarashi), 身バレ (mibare)
• Russian: до́ксить impf (dóksitʹ) (slang, rare), разглаша́ть конфиденциа́льную информа́цию impf (razglašátʹ konfidenciálʹnuju informáciju) (literally "to disclose confidential information")
• Spanish: doxear, doxxear
• Swedish: doxa (sv)