"slashdot" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "After Slashdot, a site that commonly links to other, smaller sites.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "slashdots",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slashdotting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slashdotted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slashdotted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "++"
      },
      "expansion": "slashdot (third-person singular simple present slashdots, present participle slashdotting, simple past and past participle slashdotted)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Computing",
          "orig": "en:Computing",
          "parents": [
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Internet",
          "orig": "en:Internet",
          "parents": [
            "Computing",
            "Networking",
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2002, Shelley Powers et al., Unix Power Tools http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0596003307&id=t295L6vYuUkC&pg=PA501&lpg=PA501&dq=slashdotted&sig=rF5IZDXp33wnnsgkRIC5niMtqHM\nIf these numbers are significantly higher than normal usage, something is amiss (perhaps your web server has been slashdotted)."
        },
        {
          "text": "[2003], 2006 Matthew Strebe, The Best of SlashNOT, 2002–2005 http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0595383157&id=skVK4smqz8UC&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99&dq=slashdotted&sig=z6LagXUGvJ09gG77HdLoLSEnFAk\nAnd that guy is supposed to be thrilled to lose both his inbound and outbound connections and e-mail for the joy of having been slashdotted."
        },
        {
          "text": "2005, Ivan Ristic, Apache Security http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0596007248&id=5yiULnTkN6oC&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=slashdotted&sig=_zJmLeVMfDyEAAt8FhAl6NZcrVA\nSites that have been slashdotted report traffic between several hundred and several thousand hits per minute."
        },
        {
          "text": "2005, Charles Stross, Accelerando https://web.archive.org/web/20080519054317/http://www.accelerando.org/_static/accelerando.html\nOh shit, thinks Manfred, better buy some more server time. He can recognize the signs: He's about to be slashdotted."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To render a website slow or unusable via the unusually large number of page requests that result from a link on a very popular web site."
      ],
      "id": "en-slashdot-en-verb-0Ww0Twso",
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
        [
          "render",
          "render"
        ],
        [
          "website",
          "website"
        ],
        [
          "slow",
          "slow"
        ],
        [
          "unusable",
          "unusable"
        ],
        [
          "unusually",
          "unusually"
        ],
        [
          "request",
          "request"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing, Internet, dated) To render a website slow or unusable via the unusually large number of page requests that result from a link on a very popular web site."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "Slashdot effect"
        },
        {
          "word": "slashdotting"
        },
        {
          "word": "DDOS"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fark"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet",
        "dated"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Slashdot"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "word": "slashdot"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "After Slashdot, a site that commonly links to other, smaller sites.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "slashdots",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slashdotting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slashdotted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "slashdotted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "++"
      },
      "expansion": "slashdot (third-person singular simple present slashdots, present participle slashdotting, simple past and past participle slashdotted)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Slashdot effect"
    },
    {
      "word": "slashdotting"
    },
    {
      "word": "DDOS"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Computing",
        "en:Internet"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2002, Shelley Powers et al., Unix Power Tools http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0596003307&id=t295L6vYuUkC&pg=PA501&lpg=PA501&dq=slashdotted&sig=rF5IZDXp33wnnsgkRIC5niMtqHM\nIf these numbers are significantly higher than normal usage, something is amiss (perhaps your web server has been slashdotted)."
        },
        {
          "text": "[2003], 2006 Matthew Strebe, The Best of SlashNOT, 2002–2005 http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0595383157&id=skVK4smqz8UC&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99&dq=slashdotted&sig=z6LagXUGvJ09gG77HdLoLSEnFAk\nAnd that guy is supposed to be thrilled to lose both his inbound and outbound connections and e-mail for the joy of having been slashdotted."
        },
        {
          "text": "2005, Ivan Ristic, Apache Security http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0596007248&id=5yiULnTkN6oC&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=slashdotted&sig=_zJmLeVMfDyEAAt8FhAl6NZcrVA\nSites that have been slashdotted report traffic between several hundred and several thousand hits per minute."
        },
        {
          "text": "2005, Charles Stross, Accelerando https://web.archive.org/web/20080519054317/http://www.accelerando.org/_static/accelerando.html\nOh shit, thinks Manfred, better buy some more server time. He can recognize the signs: He's about to be slashdotted."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To render a website slow or unusable via the unusually large number of page requests that result from a link on a very popular web site."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
        [
          "render",
          "render"
        ],
        [
          "website",
          "website"
        ],
        [
          "slow",
          "slow"
        ],
        [
          "unusable",
          "unusable"
        ],
        [
          "unusually",
          "unusually"
        ],
        [
          "request",
          "request"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing, Internet, dated) To render a website slow or unusable via the unusually large number of page requests that result from a link on a very popular web site."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet",
        "dated"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Slashdot"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "fark"
    }
  ],
  "word": "slashdot"
}