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noun (plural spams) |
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electronic junk mail: an unsolicited, often commercial, message transmitted through the Internet as a mass mailing to a large number of recipients
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transitive and intransitive verb (past and past participle spammed, present participle spam·ming, 3rd person present singular spams) |
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1. send unwanted e-mail: to send an unsolicited e-mail message, often an advertisement, to many people
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2. post unwanted electronic messages: to post a message many times to a newsgroup, or an inappropriate message to multiple newsgroups
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| [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)] |
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 spam·mer noun |
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