DOGE

DOGE

1. (international standards) Unofficial non-ISO 4217 currency code for the cryptocurrency Dogecoin.

   Synonym: XDG

   • 2024 November 13, Shaurya Malwa, “Dogecoin Trade Goes From Meme to Reality as Donald Trump Confirms D.O.G.E”, in CoinDesk‎ (in English):

     A CoinDesk analysis flagged in mid-October about DOGE trade gaining interest among investors for its memetic nature, and that there could be more chatter of “DOGE” in mainstream media and retail trading circles that fuels attention and interest in the token.

This code is incompatible with ISO 4217, as currency codes under that standard must be three characters long. The code XDG is therefore used when a compatible alternative is necessary.

• Doge

Back-formation from doge as a backronym, an Internet meme, or from dogecoin, a cryptocurrency that Elon Musk has supported.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dəʊdʒ/, /dəʊʒ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /doʊd͡ʒ/, /doʊʒ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊdʒ, -əʊʒ

DOGE

1. (US politics) Acronym of Department of Government Efficiency.
   • 2024 November 14, Rhian Lubin, “What is DOGE? Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency led by Musk and Ramaswamy”, in The Independent‎:

     It is not known how big a budget DOGE will have, how many people it will itself employ, or how much of the American taxpayers’ dollars it will require.

   • 2025 February 2, Jennifer Hansler and Alex Marquardt, “Senior USAID security officials put on leave after attempting to refuse Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems”, in CNN‎:

     The DOGE personnel wanted to gain access to USAID security systems and personnel files, three sources said.

   • 2025 February 26, “USAID’s Troubling Ties to the Left’s Dark Money Network”, in Committee on Oversight and Government Reform‎, page 2:

     DOGE has highlighted how USAID spent millions propping up the Marxist ideology of “diversity, equity, and inclusion;” the unfair and divisive transgender orthodoxy; and the climate alarmist movement.

DOGE (third-person singular simple present DOGEs, present participle DOGEing, simple past and past participle DOGEd or DOGE'd)

1. (transitive) To fire, scale back or remove in an attempt to improve efficiency.

   Alternative form: doge

   • 2025 February 20, “CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip”, in CNN‎, spoken by Jesse Watters:

     There was a huge exodus over at the National Archives for snickety librarians were getting DOGEd silly.

   • 2025 March 7, Jonathan Lemire, quoting Jesse Watters, “Is DOGE Losing Steam?”, in The Atlantic‎, archived from the original on 2025-03-07:

     “I finally found one person I knew who got DOGE’d, and it hit me in the heart,” said Watters, who urged his Fox colleagues to “be a little bit less callous.”

   • 2025 March 28, Brant Bigamon, “DOGEing the Texas Education Agency”, in The Austin Chronicle‎:

     Hinojosa called it a DOGEing of the TEA: “It is a zero-based budgeting bill to cut through the nonsense and the bureaucracy and the vendor contracts, and reprioritize that money to what matters – teacher pay, school safety, and closing the special education funding gap.”

Borrowed from English DOGE (“Department of Government Efficiency”).

DOGE m

1. Departamento de Eficiencia Gubernamental; DOGE.
   • 2025 June 7, Jeanne Sahadi, “El DOGE acaba de recibir luz verde para acceder a tus datos del Seguro Social. ¿Qué significa?”, in CNN en Español‎:

     Mientras que un tribunal federal inferior había bloqueado los esfuerzos del DOGE para acceder a dichos datos —que argumentó que necesita para reducir el despilfarro, el fraude y el abuso— la Corte Suprema levantó esa orden el viernes, permitiendo al DOGE acceder a los datos por ahora.

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