Jammer

From jam +‎ -er.

Jammer (plural Jammers)

1. A player of the massively multiplayer online game Animal Jam (now either the app so named, formerly Animal Jam – Play Wild!, or the desktop game renamed Animal Jam Classic).

   Synonym: Animal Jammer

   • 2013 March 19, “Smart Bomb Interactive Celebrates Record Growth”, in Business Wire, →OCLC:

     A growing percentage of "Jammers" are visiting from international territories, and global growth of the Animal Jam property will be a strong focus for Smart Bomb Interactive in 2013.

   • 2014, Katherine Noll, “Welcome to Animal Jam!”, in Animal Jam: Official Insider’s Guide, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISBN, page 5:

     So come meet over 16 million Animal Jam players, or Jammers. […] Liza appears throughout this book to share her advice and tips with all Jammers.

   • 2014 September 10, Shilpa Chakravorty, “Animal Jam Codes 2014: Earn Gems & a Diamond All At Once With Jammer Codes!”, in BREATHEcast‎^[1], archived from the original on 3 June 2025:
   • 2018 summer, “DCT Media launch This is^[sic] Animal Jam magazine”, in Total Licensing‎^[2], Wadhurst, East Sussex, →OCLC, page 131, column 1:

     This Is Animal Jam, which has recently hit magazine racks across the country, is filled with insider tips, a Jammer name generator, games and puzzles and fun facts about the natural world.

   • 2022 September 30, Miranda Wollen, “Are You There, God? It’s Me, iluvcupcakes29545.”, in Yale Daily News, volume CXLV, number 2, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University, →ISSN, →OCLC, page B4, columns 2 and 5:

     Only as an actual adult did I realize how bizarre one particular user-created facet of the game was: an obsession with “adopting” other Jammers, or being “adopted” oneself. […] It’s a little disconcerting to ponder how much of my happy online childhood was spent hanging out virtually with people who were old enough to own Hondas and go on PornHub^[sic] on purpose (and definitely people old enough to be active on Reddit), but I loved being a Jammer.

From Middle High German jāmer, from Old High German jāmar, from Proto-West Germanic *jāmar, from Proto-Germanic *jēmaraz. Cognates include Dutch jammer and English yammer.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjamɐ/
• Rhymes: -amɐ

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Jammer m (strong, genitive Jammers, no plural)

1. misery

• jammern
• Katzenjammer

Unadapted borrowing from English jammer.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɛmɐ/

Jammer m (strong, genitive Jammers, plural Jammer)

1. jammer (device used to jam radio reception)

   Synonym: Störsender

   • 2011 August 12, J.D. Robb, In den Armen der Nacht: Roman (Eve Dallas)‎^[3], Blanvalet Taschenbuch Verlag, →ISBN:

     »Und ich werde morgen mit ein paar Leuten aus der Forschungs- und Entwicklungsabteilung sprechen. Vielleicht fällt ja einem von ihnen noch was zu den Jammern ein.«

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   • 2016 May 30, Anna Kaiser, Auf Schritt und Tritt – die elektronische Aufenthaltsüberwachung: Entwicklung, Rechtsgrundlagen, Verfassungsmäßigkeit‎^[4], Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 88:

     Auch andere Technik kann das GPS-Signal stören. Störsender, sogenannte GPS-Jammer, sind im Internet frei verkäuflich, auch wenn ihre Benutzung verboten ist. Diese Jammer können das GPS-Signal nicht nur vollständig stören, sondern es auch verfälschen, sodass es manipulierbar wird.⁶¹⁰

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