Dictionary

doxx en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /dɑks/ (General-American)
• (US) audio
• /dɒks/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

A phonetic respelling of docs, which is a clipped form of documents.

Meanings

1. (Internet, slang, transitive) To publish personal information of (a person) without their consent.
   • The amorphous hacktivist collective known as “Anonymous” decided to make a spectacle of the situation by publishing personally identifiable information on – “doxxing” – Todd’s stalker. 2012 October 29, Danah Boyd, “Truth, Lies, and ‘Doxxing’: The Real Moral of the Gawker/Reddit Story”, in Wired, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2014:
   • “ICE officers wear a mask because they’ve been doxxed by the thousands,” Tom Homan, Mr. Trump’s border czar, told my colleagues at “The Daily.” “Their families have been doxxed. ICE officers’ pictures show up on trees and telephone poles. Death threats are sky-high.” 2025 September 5, Sabrian Tavernise, quoting Tom Homan, “ICE Agents Are Wearing Masks. Is That Un-American?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2025:
   • and we do what you say because? the fact you claim to be an exscn from arizona when in fact you have been doxxed as a peon from NYC? or maybe you think we should forget the 4000 posts slamming everyone from alert to znalo posted at such a rate you have to be mainlining amphetamine sulphate? 2008 August 20, Jinkii <Jinkii2@googlemail.com>, “Posting on ars doesn't actually introduce Scientology to more people...”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet), archived from the original on 22 Oct 2025:
   • “Evan doxxed everyone in Dramatis Personai. Those guys aren't just 'offline.'” Max said. “They're dead.” PHYREWALL laughed. “What's funny about that?” Max asked. “He couldn't have doxxed everyone,” PHYREWALL said. “He doxxed you, Nat,' Max said. 2014, E. C. Myers, The Silence of Six, unnumbered page:
   • Anonymous said: shit, I hope no one doxxes her. She actually delivered. She seems like a kind girl. Anonymous replied: dude get a grip she gave her first name, her physician's full name, and even the dormitory area she lives in she wants to be found. Anonymous replied: She is new. Any girl who uses signs or writes names on her body is clearly new to camwhoring, so they really don't know what they're getting themselves into. 2014, Jamie Bartlett, The Dark Net, page 15:
   • But acting director of ICE, Todd Lyons, has said it's a necessary response to what he describes as efforts to dox and threaten these agents and their families. ICE has said there has been a dramatic increase in the doxing of agents but has not said how many cases there have been or provided any details. The agency has not provided any information to support their assertion of an increase in agent doxxing. 2025 September 5, Jaclyn Diaz, “What ICE agents can and cannot legally do during arrests”, in NPR, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2025:
   • In that frame of mind, the worst thing that can happen will always be online. Being doxxed or ridiculed, for example, outweighs the offline risks of wasted time, poor health, or arrest. 2013, Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous, unnumbered page:
   • The rule: Any Twitter user who publishes the live location or other personal information of someone else — an act known as doxxing — will be taken offline. In a Twitter Spaces discussion, Mr. Musk defended the decision to block the journalists. “You doxx, you get suspended, end of story,” he said, and then abruptly left the call. 2022 December 16, Bernhard Warner, quoting Elon Musk, “Musk Faces Growing Anger Over Twitter Ban of Journalists”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2023:
2. (Internet, slang, transitive) To reveal the operator of (an anonymous online account) without their consent.

Forms

Deriveds

doxxee · doxxable · undoxxable · doxxer · undoxxed

Relateds

haxx

Translations (23)

pl zdoxować (to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet) · fr doxer (to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet) · es doxxear (to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet) · cmn 開盒 /开盒 (to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet) · hu doxol (to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet) · sv doxa (to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet) · es doxear (to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet) · es funar (to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet) · ja 晒し (to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet) · pl doxować (to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet) · ru до́ксить (to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet) · cmn 出道 (to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet) · ja 身バレ (to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet) · yue 起底 (to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet) · fr dox (to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet) · fr doxx (to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet) · ru деанонимизиравать (to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet) · nl doxen (to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet) · de doxen (to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet) · fr doxxer (to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet) · cmn 人肉 (to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet) · hu doxxol (to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet) · fi doxxata (to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet)