dabloon

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English

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Etymology

From English doubloon, a former Spanish gold coin.

Pronunciation

Noun

dabloon (plural dabloons)

  1. (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, 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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