dabloon en · NOUN
Etymology
From English doubloon, a former Spanish gold coin.
Meanings
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(Internet, humorous) A fictional currency among certain TikTok users, earned and lost by random encounters while scrolling.
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.
2022 November 24, Jess Weatherbed, “Hello traveler…have ye heard about TikTok Dabloons?”, in The Verge, retrieved 25 Nov 2022:Alexis Bishop, an actor who lives in Orlando, Fla., keeps track of her 174 dabloons on a whiteboard in her office.
2022 November 24, Anna Grace Lee, Callie Holtermann, “What Are ‘Dabloons,’ the Imaginary Currency of TikTok?”, in The New York Times, retrieved 25 Nov 2022:
- (Internet, broadly, humorous) A dollar, or any other form of currency.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| dabloons | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| doubloon | alternative | lexicographic |