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spam

spam [ spam ]


noun  (plural spams)
Definition:
 
electronic junk mail: an unsolicited, often commercial, message transmitted through the Internet as a mass mailing to a large number of recipients



transitive and intransitive verb  (past and past participle spammed, present participle spam·ming, 3rd person present singular spams)
Definition:
 
1. send unwanted e-mail: to send an unsolicited e-mail message, often an advertisement, to many people

2. post unwanted electronic messages: to post a message many times to a newsgroup, or an inappropriate message to multiple newsgroups

[Late 20th century. Probably from a sketch in the U.K. television comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus in which all items on a menu contained Spam(tm)]

spam·mer noun
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