spam

USSPAM/ˈspæm/

10 meanings of spam

1
nouncountable or uncountable
A canned meat made mostly from ham, sold ready to eat.
Like a block of cooked ham that comes in a can.
She fried some spam for breakfast.
We packed spam and crackers for the camping trip.
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2
nounrarecountable or uncountable
Junk emails or messages sent to many people who did not ask for them.
Like piles of junk mail stuffed into your mailbox that you never asked for.
My inbox was full of spam this morning.
He deleted all the spam without reading it.
Similarjunk
Oppositeham
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3
verbtransitive
To send unwanted bulk messages to a person or company.
Like stuffing junk letters into someone's mailbox over and over.
Scammers spam thousands of users every day.
They spammed the whole mailing list with ads.
Similarbombard, flood, inundate, deluge
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4
verbintransitive
To send out unwanted bulk messages to lots of people.
Like handing out the same paper to everyone on the street, even those who don't want it.
He was banned from the forum for spamming.
If you spam, the system will block your account.
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5
verbtransitive or intransitive
To send the same messages again and again, flooding a place online.
Like ringing someone's doorbell again and again until they can't do anything else.
Trolls spam the chat with the same joke for hours.
Please stop spamming during the meeting.
Similarflood, bombard, inundate, swamp, deluge
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6
nouncountable or uncountable
Too many unwanted messages posted online again and again.
Like the same flyer taped all over a wall until you can't see anything else.
The comment section was full of spam.
The mods deleted the spam from the thread.
Similarclutter, junk
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7
noununcountable
Unwanted online content made by machines to sell things.
Like ads that pop up everywhere online, made by computers to sell you things.
Most of that website is just spam selling cheap products.
Filters block a lot of spam before you ever see it.
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8
verbtransitive
To do the same action very fast, again and again.
Like pressing a button on a game controller as fast as your finger can move.
He spammed the jump button to get over the wall.
Players spam the same attack to win quickly.
Similarmash
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9
nouncountable or uncountable
A huge amount of the same thing done over and over.
Like a kid pressing the same key on a piano again and again.
The chat was nothing but spam during the match.
His whole plan is just spam, hitting one move over and over.
Similarrepetition
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10
nouncountable or uncountableabbreviationellipsis
Short for spam account. Use it for a second, more private social media account for close friends.
She posts her silly photos on her spam, not her main account.
Only close friends can follow my spam.
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Origin

"Spam" was first a brand of canned meat, registered by Hormel in the United States in 1937, likely from "spiced ham." The email meaning came from a Monty Python sketch and was used online around 1993.