spam

noun

1. (Internet, countable, rare, uncountable)Unsolicited bulk electronic messages.

   “I get far too much spam.”

   “I received 58 spams yesterday.”

2. (Internet, uncountable)Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.

   “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.”

3. (Internet, countable, uncountable)Excessive, often unwanted and repeated online messages.
4. (Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable)Ellipsis of spam account.
5. (broadly, countable, often, uncountable)A large quantity or multitude of anything done repetitively or considered unusually or indiscriminately repetitive.
6. (countable, uncountable)A type of tinned meat made mainly from ham.

verb

1. (Internet, intransitive)To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages.)

   “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.”

2. (Internet, transitive)To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages) to a person or entity.
3. (Internet, intransitive, transitive)To send messages repeatedly, often with disruptive effect; to flood.
4. (broadly, transitive)To do something rapidly and repeatedly.

   “Stop spamming that special attack!”

   “Spam the Z key to get a speed boost.”

name

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of spam (“tinned meat product”).

   “During World War II, of course, I ate my share of SPAM along with millions of other soldiers.”

2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of spam (tinned meat product)