spam

spam

1. noun Unsolicited messages, typically advertisements, sent indiscriminately through email or text messages to large mailing lists. A: "The amount of spam I get each day is ridiculous." B: "You need to stop giving your email address to every website that asks for it!" Our antivirus software suite includes an advanced spam filter for your emails and text messages.
2. verb To send such unsolicited email or text messages. I always use a fake email address when I have to create online accounts so that my real email address doesn't get spammed. While we require your contact information in order to process your request, we promise never to spam you with any information you haven't specifically authorized us to send.
3. verb By extension, to send a large number of emails, text messages, or other similar notifications within a short amount of time, especially about the same topic. Sorry for spamming you with so many message today, but I kept thinking of extra details we should include in the report. He keeps spamming me with texts saying how much he loves me, and I don't have the heart to tell him I don't feel the same way.
4. verb In video games, to repeat the same in-game action multiple times frequently or continuously in order to achieve a particular outcome. They don't clearly mark what you can interact with, so you just walk around spamming the action button everywhere. Eventually my magic was so strong that every fight just devolved into me spamming my fireball attack again and again.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

spam

1. n. something disliked, typically, but not necessarily, food. (From the brand name of a canned meat product.) I can’t eat this “spam.” It could be spoiled.
2. n. one or a series of uninvited email messages advertising money-making schemes, pornography, or sales of any kind. If I don’t recognize the sender, I assume the message is spam and I delete it.
3. tv. to clutter or fill someone’s email account with spam (sense 2). Some jerk is spamming me with an advertisement for dirty pictures.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • L8R
  • l8r g8r
  • G8R
  • bb
  • BBS
  • bbg
  • correspond
  • correspond about (someone or something)
  • correspond with (one) about (someone or something)
  • WYM
References in periodicals archive
Users were also less likely to click on spam content from friends than from friends-of-friends.
Think before you click: Facebook warns users against spams
Google has (http://www.ibtimes.com/nexus-android-one-get-spam-protection-update-google-2394822) implemented a feature in Android to help weed out spam calls.
United States Becomes Second-Worst Country For Spam Calls
Mark I love Spam Benson and his partner Ann tied the knot in the Spam Museum, in the US, left, and had some speciality dishes served up, including Spam donuts, top, left
Welcome to our Spam wedding!
Spam FireWall's SQL Protection provides an affordable, automated solution for protecting from a variety of SQL injection attacks.
CleanTalk Anti-Spam Released a New Version of the Spam FireWall
More than PS150m of Spam was purchased by the military before the war's end while Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s referred to it as a "wartime delicacy".
Delivery driver Chris really likes Spam... a lot
He appeared in 2012 as part of Spam's 75th anniversary.
Spam it up
The SPAM Mail Text Mining System is classified into the Text Clustering Module, Text Classification Module, and Text Processing Module.
The adaptive spam mail detection system using clustering based on text mining
The effects of email SPAM on email users in different regions of Saudi Arabia.
A comparative study of the perceptions of end users in the eastern, western, central, southern and northern regions of Saudi Arabia about email SPAM and dealing with it
According to the new data from Sophos, Asia now generates 50.1 percent of the world's spam, followed by Europe (21.4 percent), North America (14.2 percent), South America (10.6 percent), Africa (3 percent), and others (0.7 percent).
Half of world's spam now out of Asia
"According to Kaspersky Lab, in the near future the BRICS and other rapidly developing countries will top the rating of the most prolific sources of spam because they are of particular interest to the spammers from the 'legislation/IT protection/number of users/bandwidth' point of view.
No spam-free zones left in the world
Recent research has shown a strong market among busy professionals, and Spam Sticks offer both a convenient and satisfying option."
SPAM getS SoMe Stick
Statistics issued by Kaspersky Lab, developers of antivirus software for homes or businesses, showed that pharmaceutical spam came first in the rating of the most popular spam categories in January.
Pharmaceutical spam increase dramatically
Security, storage and systems management solutions provider Symantec Corp (NASDAQ:SYMC) said today that the proportion of spam containing shortened hyperlinks has increased significantly over the last year.
Symantec highlights increasing volumes of URL-shortened spam
Not in my fully-lined, navy-coloured windpants with white piping down the leg and with the Spam logo on the upper left thigh.
When you have to Spam a lot it pays to have your windpants ready; OPINION
SOLDERS in Afghanistan had to live on Spam for six weeks after the Taliban shot down their food supplies, it was revealed yesterday.
Nothing but Spam, Spam, Spam.. for six long weeks