Spam

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Definition

spam (e-mail): unwanted emails, chain mails, unsolicited emails, junk mail
noun
'SPAM' is the brand name of a canned meat which was made popular in countries with a heavy US military presence such as Hawaii, Guam, South Korea and Japan. The term has come to refer to unsolicited, bulk, junk e-mail, perhaps because of the Monty Python sketch in which the word is repeated incessantly.

to spam (someone): to send lots of unsolicited e-mails to (someone)
verb

Examples

  • "All I receive is junk or spam from people wanting to enlarge parts of my body that don't even exist."
  • "SPAM WARNING!"
  • "
    Susie: Other messages like marriage proposals, wire transfers from Nigerian princes, and absolutely all mails from Philip Cheeter, I mark as SPAM or delete immediately.
    "
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