dabloon
English
This English term is a hot word. Its inclusion on Wiktionary is provisional.Alternative forms
- doubloon
Etymology
From English doubloon, a former Spanish gold coin.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uːn
Noun
dabloon (plural dabloons)
- (Internet slang, neologism) A fictional currency among certain TikTok users earned and lost by random encounters while scrolling, and associated with pictures of cats.
- 2022 November 24, Anna Grace Lee and Callie Holtermann, “What Are ‘Dabloons,’ the Imaginary Currency of TikTok?”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2022-11-25:
- Alexis Bishop, an actor who lives in Orlando, Fla., keeps track of her 174 dabloons on a whiteboard in her office.
- 2022 November 24, Jess Weatherbed, “Hello traveler…have ye heard about TikTok Dabloons?”, in The Verge, retrieved 2022-11-25:
- This is likely unintentional, stemming from financially literate users building on posts that give away unreasonable quantities of dabloons, but it’s amusingly managed to simulate a real financial disaster without any of its discourse.
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Derived terms
- Dabloonian