spam

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /spæm/

• Audio (UK)

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Noun

Singular spam

Plural spams

1. (uncountable) (internet) Spam refers to random messages on the Internet. If you receive many messages that advertise things or were sent without you asking for them, you are getting spam.
   • Synonyms: junk mail and advertising

   There are many online computer programs that send spam to users.

2. (countable) (rare) (internet) A spam is a single random message. A single occurrence of spam.

   He received 65 spams to his e-mail account yesterday.

Verb

Plain form spam

Third-person singular spams

Past tense spammed

Past participle spammed

Present participle spamming

1. (transitive) (internet) If you spam someone, you send many random electronic messages (spam) to that person.

   I hate it when people spam my forum.

2. (intransitive) (internet) If you spam, you send spam.

   I don't like the guy who spams people every day.