Joe-job

See also: joe-job, Joe job, and joe job

English

Etymology

Denominal verb of Joe job.

Verb

Joe-job (third-person singular simple present Joe-jobs, present participle Joe-jobbing, simple past and past participle Joe-jobbed)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of joe-job.
    • 2003 October 31, Jonathan Krim, “Hate that spam? E-mail providers may save the day”, in The Idaho Statesman, 140th year, number 98, Boise, Ida., →ISSN, →OCLC, Main section, page 4, column 6:
      “People get Joe-jobbed every day,” said Meng Wong, chief technology officer and founder of Pobox.com, a Philadelphia-based e-mail account provider.
    • 2003 November 30, Wm..., “I thought I had been Joe-jobbed, I was wrong it is Thanksgiving w/e in the USA”, in demon.service‎[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 5 June 2025:
      I thought I'd been Joe-jobbed when I saw: === Sun, 30 Nov 2003 15:16:22 Finished collecting mail from POP3 server 127.0.0.1, 21 messages accepted, 3495 rejected / Sun, 30 Nov 2003 15:16:22 3495 messages deleted from POP3 server, 43 messages remain ===
    • 2006 March 11, Scott Allen, “Joe jobbing moves to blog comment spam - I'm a victim”, in ‎[2] (Usenet), archived from the original on 5 June 2025:
      It seems that Joe-jobbing has now moved to blog comment spam. I apparently pissed off one of these comment spammers and now they're going around to dozens, if not hundreds, of blogs (seems to be mostly WordPress blogs) and posing as me, posting comments in my name and linking to my site.
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