Meaning

2 senses
  1. (idiomatic)An uninteresting, low-level, low-paying job.

  2. (US, idiomatic)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.

Origin

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

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

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Forms

plural: joe jobs

Word family

1 related words
Derivedjoe-job

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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