junk call

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of junk call¹

By analogy with junk mail

Example Sentences

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

If so, the TCPA’s junk call provisions may be the first of many cherished protections whose reach is diminished under this new flag of textualism.

From Slate

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

From MSNBC