n. — informal
a task or job that is dull and menial.
Type: 5. Frequency — The term is not frequent in the US, the UK, or other non-Canadian newspapers. A frequency chart is, however, not possible due to lots of noise in non-Canadian domains, but a semantic sample (see fist note) indicates its frequency in Canada.
See also COD-2, s.v. "joe job", which is marked "Cdn", Gage-3 and Gage-5, s.v. "joe-job", which both label the term as "informal" but not as Canadian, which is an oversight.
- A frequency chart for this meaning is impossible because a spamming technique by that very name clouds the picture. However, reading the first 50 hits for the sense 'menial task' showed that it is more common in Canada than in the UK; 150 hits for the term revealed only one example in the US.
.ca - 11/50 hits; .uk - 3/50 hits; US - 1/150 hits (2 Feb. 2016)
Most hits in this sample referred to the spamming technique.