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