pizzabombing
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
39
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A form of harassment involving the coordinated mass-ordering of unwanted delivery food (typically pizza) to a target's address, often intended to humiliate livestreamers or cause financial loss to restaurants.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Minutes later, a self-proclaimed cybercriminal claiming to be a Hammond victim – but actually a supporter – spent 10 minutes telling the judge how Anonymous members are terrorizing him and his parents with various fast-food-ordering pranks like "pizza bombing," as well as "swatting," a term used for making bogus 911 calls so SWAT or other emergency crews respond to a targeted location."
- "From there, more shadowy characters, none of them named – even, in most cases, among themselves – will publicize the information, max out the officer's credit card or order 100 pizzas to his house. (That little stunt is called pizza-bombing, and it's a lot less fun than it sounds.)"
- "Pizzabombing ist eher eine harmlose Variante des Swatting... Streamer:innen werden besonders oft Opfer dieser Aktion, denn im Livestream können die Täter die Reaktion ihrer Ziele in Echtzeit beobachten."
- "Die beiden wurden Opfer eines sogenannten Pizzabombings: Cyberkriminelle bestellen Essen im Namen ihrer Ziele und an deren Adressen. Was nach einem harmlosen Streich klingen mag, wird zum Akt der Demütigung."