spimming

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noun

The sending of spim.

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Meanings

nounspimming (uncountable)
  1. InternetuncountableThe sending of spim.

    Another threat to the use of IM is a phenomenon known as spimming. Spimming is to IM as spam is to e-mail. Some aggressive spimmers learned how to take over one IMer's contact list — threatening a company's entire IM system!

    2007, Bill Daley, Computers Are Your Future, page 70

Origin

From spim + -ing.

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Cite this entry
APA

spimming. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spimming

MLA

“spimming.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spimming. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spimming,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spimming.

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