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slashdotted

When a web site becomes virtually unreachable because too many people are trying to access to it after the site has been mentioned on another web site. The term was born at the Slashdot nerd news service. (www.slashdot.org)
"I can't load the page, the site must be slashdotted"
"You got the Google cache? The site's slashdotted"
slashdotted by Anonymous November 5, 2002
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slashdotted

When a website experiences a surge in user traffic to the point of grinding to a halt. Often this results in web masters having to foot huge bills if they pay by bandwidth.
Damn slashdotted site!!!!
slashdotted by wiggles May 21, 2003