jammer
/ˈd͡ʒæmɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.74 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A player of the massively multiplayer online game Animal Jam (now either the app so named, formerly Animal Jam – Play Wild!, or the desktop game renamed Animal Jam Classic).
Example Sentences
- "A growing percentage of "Jammers" are visiting from international territories, and global growth of the Animal Jam property will be a strong focus for Smart Bomb Interactive in 2013."
- "So come meet over 16 million Animal Jam players, or Jammers. […] Liza appears throughout this book to share her advice and tips with all Jammers."
- "This Is Animal Jam, which has recently hit magazine racks across the country, is filled with insider tips, a Jammer name generator, games and puzzles and fun facts about the natural world."
- "Only as an actual adult did I realize how bizarre one particular user-created facet of the game was: an obsession with “adopting” other Jammers, or being “adopted” oneself. […] It’s a little disconcerting to ponder how much of my happy online childhood was spent hanging out virtually with people who were old enough to own Hondas and go on PornHub^([sic]) on purpose (and definitely people old enough to be active on Reddit), but I loved being a Jammer."
- ""But the Civil Aviation Authority is very worried about 'flyaway' - if someone has bought a GPS jammer on eBay because they don't want drones near their house, it can cause drones to get completely lost and shoot off in a random direction until they run out of battery."
Etymology
From jam + -er.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈd͡ʒæmɚ/