war dialing

Using a port scanner to find vulnerable computer systems.

"I was war dialing the school's network and found a backdoor, so I gave myself strait A's."

by Subdermal_iPod_implantee December 18, 2006

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dilly-dialing

making a phone call out of boredom or indecision; To dawdle or vacillate on the phone.

When my girlfriend is bored she will call me up and burn all my daytime minutes dilly-dialing.

by mike desmond December 20, 2007

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1. The act of deliberating calling a person's phone number repeatidly in succession.

2. The disrespecting act of making a nuisance of one's self by continuously dialing a number. As if doing the same thing (dialing) over and over again, will produce a different result.

Why is Allie always stalk dialing people? lf they wanted to talk to her, they would!

by ConcernedInChesapeake November 7, 2011

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Dead Dialing

Attempting to call someone who is deceased due to a momentary lapse of memory or a somewhat involuntary reaction.

Finding a website that mom would love, I thought about calling her, momentarily forgetting that she had passed. I realized that dead dialing can happen long after a loved one is gone.

by Pat Lanagan April 8, 2020

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