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spam, v.
Brit. |spæm|, U.S. |spæm|
[‹ Spam n.
In sense 2 probably with specific reference to a 1971 sketch from the British television comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus, set in a café where Spam was served as the main ingredient of every dish, and featuring a nonsense song whose lyrics consist chiefly of the word ‘Spam’ repeated many times over, at times interrupting or drowning out other conversation (see also quot. 1994 2); perhaps influenced by jam v.1 3c.]
1. trans. Brit. Services' slang. To give (a person) an unpleasant task. rare.
1991Times 26 Jan. 3/5 A good trooper never ‘gonks’ (sleeps) when he is on ‘stag’ (sentry duty) even if he feels annoyed at his having been ‘spammed’ or ‘jiffed’ (given a particularly unpleasant task) by one of his superiors.
2. trans. Computing slang. Compare Spam n. To flood (a network, esp. the Internet, a newsgroup, or individuals) with a large number of unsolicited postings, or multiple copies of the same posting. Also intr.: to send large numbers of unsolicited messages or advertisements.
[1991E. S. Raymond New Hacker's Dict. Spam, to crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data.] 1994Time 25 July 51/3 What the Arizona lawyers did that fateful April day was to ‘Spam’ the Net, a colorful bit of Internet jargon meant to evoke the effect of dropping a can of Spam into a fan and filling the surrounding space with meat. 1997Independent 26 Sept. i. 7/2 He has used those [machines] at the weekend to spam again—and almost instantly they have been shut down as the spam is tracked back to its source. 1998Wired Feb. 145/3 Some exiles have used email to spam the island's digerati with political diatribes. |