Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

joe job

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.70 in modern English

Syllables
joe job
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An uninteresting, low-level, low-paying job.

noun

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.

American usage

noun

Alternative letter-case form of joe job.

Example Sentences

Etymology

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

Usage

Inflected Forms

joe jobs (plural)

Phrases

joe-job

Questions

What does joe job mean?
An uninteresting, low-level, low-paying job.
Where does joe job come from?
In the computing sense, originated from such a spam attack against Joe Doll in 1997.

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