|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
| 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 |
|
|
|
|