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DOGE en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /doʊʒ/ (US)
  • /dəʊʒ/ (UK)
  • /doʊd͡ʒ/ (US)
  • /dəʊdʒ/ (UK)

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of) Acronym of Department of Government Efficiency.
    • The book ends with Musk’s DOGE rampage: “Musk was doing to the federal government almost note-for-note what he had done to Twitter.” 2026 May 14, Rebecca Bratten Weiss, “The minds and money behind MAGA”, in Christian Century, volume 143, number 5, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 86:
    • 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. 2025 February 26, “USAID’s Troubling Ties to the Left’s Dark Money Network”, in Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, page 2:
    • 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. 2024 November 14, Rhian Lubin, “What is DOGE? Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency led by Musk and Ramaswamy”, in The Independent:
    • The DOGE personnel wanted to gain access to USAID security systems and personnel files, three sources said. 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:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
Doge alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

DOGE bro · DOGEr

wikipedia: Elon Musk

DOGE en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /doʊʒ/ (US)
  • /dəʊʒ/ (UK)
  • /doʊd͡ʒ/ (US)
  • /dəʊdʒ/ (UK)

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To fire, scale back or remove in an attempt to improve efficiency.
    • There was a huge exodus over at the National Archives for snickety librarians were getting DOGEd silly. 2025 February 20, “CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip”, in CNN, spoken by Jesse Watters:
    • “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 7, Jonathan Lemire, quoting Jesse Watters, “Is DOGE Losing Steam?”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2025:
    • 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.” 2025 March 28, Brant Bigamon, “DOGEing the Texas Education Agency”, in The Austin Chronicle:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
Doge alternative lexicographic
DOGE'd Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
DOGE'd Tense=Past lexicographic
DOGEd Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
DOGEd Tense=Past lexicographic
DOGEs Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
DOGEing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Relateds

doge

wikipedia: Elon Musk