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junk call

American  

noun

  1. a telephone call soliciting a donation or selling a product or service by a caller making many such calls to a list of prospects.


Etymology

Origin of junk call

By analogy with junk mail

Example Sentences

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My caller ID didn’t show a name, I didn’t recognize the number and I thought it was a junk call.

From Seattle Times

“Do they have the content of that junk call or just the duration of it?”

From MSNBC