joe job

noun

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

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Meanings

joe job1

nounjoe job (plural joe jobs)

plural joe jobs · alternative Joe job

  1. idiomaticAn 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. USidiomaticcomputingAn 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.

Joe job2

nounJoe job (plural Joe jobs)

plural Joe jobs

  1. Alternative letter-case form of joe job.

Origin

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

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APA

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Chicago

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