robo-call
n.— «As far as telemarketers go, ask them to remove you from their list, if they continue to call (or if its a robo-call) then (don’t know about availability in other states) start hitting *57 (call trace) which logs the number with the phone company as a harassing call.» —“Re: Question About CallerID” by Dean Ridgway Usenet: comp.society.privacy July 9, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
Mary Beth in Greenville, South Carolina, wonders: Why do we say four-oh-nine for the number 409 instead of four-zero-nine or four-aught-nine? What are the rules for saying either zero or oh or aught or ought to indicate that arithmetical symbol...