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bluejack

verb

Etymology

Blend of Bluetooth + hijack.

  1. derived from jaque
  2. derived from jacke
  3. inherited from jakke
  4. suffixed as jacker — “jack + er”
  5. compounded as hijack — “highway + jacker”
  6. compounded as bluejack — “Bluetooth + hijack”

Definitions

  1. To send messages to (a device) anonymously using Bluetooth.

    • My friend's mobile keeps getting bluejacked - it's really quite annoying.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bluejack. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA