spam

plural spams · alternative Spam · alternative SPAM

1. InternetcountablerareuncountablecomputingUnsolicited bulk electronic messages.

   I get far too much spam.

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   I received 58 spams yesterday.

   In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.

   2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74

   Synonyms: junk mail · Antonyms: ham

2. InternetuncountablecomputingAny undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.

   An Act to provide for the control of spam, which is unsolicited commercial communications sent in bulk by electronic mail or by text or multi-media messaging to mobile telephone numbers, and to provide for matters connected therewith.

   Long title, Spam Control Act (Cap. 311A, R. Ed. 2008)

3. InternetcountableuncountableExcessive, often unwanted and repeated online messages.
4. InternetabbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of spam account.
5. broadlycountableoftenuncountablevideo gamesA large quantity or multitude of anything done repetitively or considered unusually or indiscriminately repetitive.
6. countableuncountableA type of tinned meat made mainly from ham.

present singular third person spams · participle present spamming · participle past spammed · past spammed · alternative Spam · alternative SPAM

1. InternetintransitivecomputingTo send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages.)

   Transformed by programming ineptitude into a monster of Frankenstein proportions, it broke loose on the night of March 31, 1993 and proceeded to spam news.admin.policy with something on the order of 200 messages in which it attempted, and failed, to cancel its own messages.

   1993 March 31, Joel Furr, “ARMM: ARMM: >>>>Ad Infinitum”, in alt.folklore.computers (Usenet), message-ID <d5SlxvmhmNwJ>

2. InternettransitivecomputingTo send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages) to a person or entity.
3. InternetintransitivetransitivecomputingTo send messages repeatedly, often with disruptive effect; to flood.
4. broadlytransitivecomputingTo do something rapidly and repeatedly.

   Stop spamming that special attack!

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   Spam the Z key to get a speed boost.

1. alternativeAlternative form of spam (“tinned meat product”).

   During World War II, of course, I ate my share of SPAM along with millions of other soldiers.

   1966 June 29, Dwight D Eisenhower, Letter to Hormel Foods dated 29 June 1966

1. alternativeAlternative form of spam (tinned meat product)