Donglegate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A controversy of 2013 in which a woman at a technology conference took offense on overhearing an apparently ribald joke involving the word dongle and published the two men's photographs on the Internet in an attempt to shame them, causing one to be fired from his job.

Word forms

Donglegate

Etymology

From dongle + -gate.

Related words

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