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spam
verb- to post e-mail in unwanted quantities, especially advertising matter to people who don’t want it US
Ultimately from branded tinned meat Spam (a compound of spiced ham); popular etymology insists that this usage is inspired by the Monty Python sketch, 1970, set in a café in which nothing but unwanted Spam is served. - In contrast, the cost to spam an advertisement in thousands of news groups, where it is potentially read by hundreds of thousands of computer users, is typically less than $50. — New York Times, p. 51, 7 May 1994
- to assign an unpleasant task to someone UK
Gulf war usage. - — American Speech, p. 401, Winter 1991: “Among the new words”
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