wangiri

The English word “wangiri” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

A type of phone call scam in which the caller dials a random number and immediately hangs up in the hopes that the recipient will call back.

Borrowed from Japanese ワン切(ぎ)り (wangiri).

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