Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
An uninteresting, low-level, low-paying job.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, idiomatic
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of joe job.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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History
In the computing sense, originated from such a spam attack against Joe Doll in 1997.
