dabloon

English

This English term is a hot word. Its inclusion on Wiktionary is provisional.

Alternative forms

Etymology

From English doubloon, a former Spanish gold coin.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -uːn

Noun

dabloon (plural dabloons)

  1. (Internet slang, neologism) A fictional currency among certain TikTok users, earned and lost by random encounters while scrolling, and associated with pictures of cats.
    • 2022 November 24, Anna Grace Lee, Callie Holtermann, “What Are ‘Dabloons,’ the Imaginary Currency of TikTok?”, in The New York Times‎[1], retrieved 25 November 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, Jess Weatherbed, “Hello traveler…have ye heard about TikTok Dabloons?”, in The Verge‎[2], retrieved 25 November 2022:
      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.

Derived terms

  • Dabloonian
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