splog

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noun

A fake blog, usually reusing content from other sources in order to generate link spam.

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Meanings

nounsplog (plural splogs)

plural splogs

  1. InternetA fake blog, usually reusing content from other sources in order to generate link spam.

    The “b” in these words is all that remains from its ancestor, Berners-Lee’s Web, and even that slim vestige can be lost when blog blends with other words, as in vlog (a video blog) and splog (a spam blog).

    [2010 November 11, Ben Zimmer, “Web”, in The New York Times Magazine

    Synonyms: flog, spamblog

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA fake blog, usually reusing content from other sources in order to generate link spam.

Similar
flogspamblog
Also see
flogspamblog

Origin

Blend of spam + blog.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with splog

blogfogogprogOggbogcogsmogsogcloghoggmogtogvlogbullfrogsloggrogsnogvogagogpoggetroggloggdevlog
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Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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