joe job

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An uninteresting, low-level, low-paying job.
  2. An act of e-mail spamming where the sender's identity and address are those of an innocent third party, intended either to tarnish that person's reputation or to flood that person's e-mail with bounces.
noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of joe job.

Pronunciation

En-au-joe job.ogg

Word forms

joe job joe jobs

Etymology

In the computing sense, originated from such a spam attack against Joe Doll in 1997.

Derived words

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