Meaning

(uncountable, rarely countable, computing, Internet) Unsolicited bulk electronic messages..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable, rarely countable, computing, Internet) Unsolicited bulk electronic messages.
2. (uncountable, computing, Internet) Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.
3. (Internet) Excessive, often unwanted and repeated online messages.
4. (Internet) Ellipsis of spam account.
5. (by extension, often video games) A large quantity or multitude of anything done repetitively or considered unusually or indiscriminately repetitive.
6. A type of tinned meat made mainly from ham.
7. (intransitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages.)
8. (transitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages) to a person or entity.

Example Sentences

I get far too much spam.

I received 58 spams yesterday.

In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.

An Act to provide for the control of spam, which is unsolicited commercial communications sent in bulk by electronic mail or by text or multi-media messaging to mobile telephone numbers, and to provide for matters connected therewith.

Transformed by programming ineptitude into a monster of Frankenstein proportions, it broke loose on the night of March 31, 1993 and proceeded to spam news.admin.policy with something on the order of 200 messages in which it attempted, and failed, to cancel its own messages.

Stop spamming that special attack!

Spam the Z key to get a speed boost.

Word Forms

• spams
• Spam
• SPAM
• spamming
• spammed

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