2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
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dogpile
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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v. [Usenet: prob. fr. mainstream puppy pile ] When many people post
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unfriendly responses in short order to a single posting, they are sometimes
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said to dogpile or dogpile on the person to whom they're responding. For
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example, when a religious missionary posts a simplistic appeal to
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alt.atheism , he can expect to be dogpiled. It has been suggested that this
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derives from U.S. football slang for a tackle involving three or more
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people; among hackers, it seems at least as likely to derive from an
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autobiographical Bugs Bunny cartoon in which a gang of attacking canines
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actually yells Dogpile on the rabbit!.
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