The use of a computer to dial a number repeatedly (usually to a crowded modempool) in an attempt to gain access immediately after another user has hung up.
Origin
From the Demon Dialer product from Zoom Telephonics, Inc., a telephone device produced in the 1980s which repeatedly dialed busy telephone numbers under control of an extension phone.
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