joe job
joe job noun: an uninteresting, low-level, low-paying job.
Noun (1)
joe job (plural joe jobs)
- An 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
- 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.
Noun (2) capitalized: Joe job
Joe job (plural Joe jobs)
- Alternative letter-case form of joe job.
Forms of joe job
| plural | joe jobs |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Joe job |
| plural | Joe jobs |
Origin of joe job
In the computing sense, originated from such a spam attack against Joe Doll in 1997.
Words formed from joe job
Questions about joe job
- What does joe job mean?
- Joe job means an uninteresting, low-level, low-paying job.
- What part of speech is joe job?
- Joe job is a noun.
- What is the plural of joe job?
- The plural of joe job is joe jobs.
Words near joe job in the dictionary
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