chickenboner
chickenboner noun: a small-time spammer.
Noun
chickenboner (plural chickenboners)
- A small-time spammer.
- While leaders of notorious spam gangs tend to be more upscale in their lifestyles, it is believed that many of them rely on numerous "chickenboners" to perform affiliate mailings on behalf of the gangs.2004, Danny Goodman, Spam Wars, page 110
- With Wallace vanquished, antispammers turned their attention to smaller foes, whom they jokingly referred to as chickenboners. Unlike big operators such as Wallace who incorporated their businesses and maintained office space with hired employees and other trappings of legitimacy, chickenboners...2014, Brian S. McWilliams, Spam Kings
Forms of chickenboner
| plural | chickenboners |
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Origin of chickenboner
From chicken + bone + -er, from their supposed diet of fast food.
Questions about chickenboner
- What does chickenboner mean?
- Chickenboner means a small-time spammer.
- What part of speech is chickenboner?
- Chickenboner is a noun.
- What is the plural of chickenboner?
- The plural of chickenboner is chickenboners.
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