doxx

• dox

A phonetic respelling of docs, which is a clipped form of documents.

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

• Audio (US):

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

1. (Internet, slang, transitive) To publish personal information of (a person) without their consent.
   • 2012 October 29, Danah Boyd, “Truth, Lies, and ‘Doxxing’: The Real Moral of the Gawker/Reddit Story”, in Wired‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 August 2014:

     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, archived from the original on 4 January 2023:

     The rule: Any Twitter user who publishes the live location or other personal information of someone else — an act known as doxxing — will be taken offline.
     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.

   • 2025 September 5, Jaclyn Diaz, “What ICE agents can and cannot legally do during arrests”, in NPR‎^[4], archived from the original on 7 September 2025:

     But acting director of ICE, Todd Lyons, has said it's a necessary response to what he describes as efforts to dox and threaten these agents and their families. ICE has said there has been a dramatic increase in the doxing of agents but has not said how many cases there have been or provided any details. The agency has not provided any information to support their assertion of an increase in agent doxxing.

   • 2025 September 5, Sabrian Tavernise, quoting Tom Homan, “ICE Agents Are Wearing Masks. Is That Un-American?”, in The New York Times‎^[5], archived from the original on 5 September 2025:

     “ICE officers wear a mask because they’ve been doxxed by the thousands,” Tom Homan, Mr. Trump’s border czar, told my colleagues at “The Daily.” “Their families have been doxxed. ICE officers’ pictures show up on trees and telephone poles. Death threats are sky-high.”

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

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