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joe job en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (idiomatic) An uninteresting, low-level, low-paying job.
   • Steve Wozniak may be a well-heeled philanthropist and world-renowned tinkerer, but at one time he had a Joe job as an engineer in Hewlett-Packard's calculator division. 2007 February 23, Chris Seibold, “February 23, 1973: Hitting the clock like a regular fella”, in Applematters.com, retrieved 25 May 2007:
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.

Forms

Deriveds

joe-job