spam

noun

\ ˈspam

Definition of spam

(Entry 1 of 3)

: unsolicited usually commercial messages (such as e-mails, text messages, or Internet postings) sent to a large number of recipients or posted in a large number of places

spam

verb

spammed; spamming

Definition of spam (Entry 2 of 3)

transitive verb

: to send or post spam to spammed customers with discount offers spamming a message board

intransitive verb

: to send or post spam The company was accused of spamming via text messages.

Spam

trademark

Definition of Spam (Entry 3 of 3)

—used for a canned meat product

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Recent Examples on the Web: Noun

Among many other functions, Facebook uses A.I. to weed spam out of people’s News Feeds. — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, "Unmasking A.I.'s Bias Problem," 25 June 2018 How will these systems be used to generate better spam? — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, "Service Workers Forced to Act Like Robots Meet Their Match," 8 May 2018 The notification spam is not isolated to TV, either. — Nick Statt, The Verge, "Apple sent iPhone owners unwanted push notifications to promote Carpool Karaoke," 18 Dec. 2018 By Email Thieves can send out spam with similar requests or demands that imitates your utilities' logos and color schemes. — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, "Scary Utility Scams Are Spreading Across the Country," 16 Nov. 2018 Video Police YouTube has removed millions of videos for violating its community guidelines, including against spam, pornography, incitement to violence, harassment or hate speech, after complaints from outside sources. — John D. Mckinnon, WSJ, "Facebook, Twitter Turn to Right-Leaning Groups to Help Referee Political Speech," 8 Jan. 2019 The report counted a call as spam if it was flagged by algorithms or manually by users. — Shannon Liao, The Verge, "Spam calls grew 300 percent worldwide in 2018, according to Truecaller," 18 Dec. 2018 Some of the user decline surely came because Twitter removed some bot and spam accounts — no doubt, a good thing to remove. — Kurt Wagner, Recode, "Twitter is about to tell us if it lost millions of users. Does that really mean its plan is working?," 24 Oct. 2018 Instead, the company’s efforts are focused on identifying and suspending accounts that violate Twitter’s spam policies. — Mark Hansen, The Seattle Times, "Paying to be popular: inside social media’s black market for fake followers," 27 Jan. 2018

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb

TechCrunch reports Facebook is also considering a limit on how many people one can express interest in, so that users can’t just spam everyone with cheesy one-liners. — Christopher Carbone, Fox News, "Facebook Dating offerings can be seen in leaked pre-launch screenshots," 6 Aug. 2018 Pichai also suggested Google will use the automated caller to check when businesses close, using Duplex to spam them and ask for opening hours, updating Google's own listings in Maps with the information. — Nicole Kobie, Teen Vogue, "Why Google Duplex Calls Should Concern All of Us," 11 May 2018 Your opponent could spam you with cheaper, Tier-1 units or hunker down with enough defenses and food-producing farms to eventually go all Tier-3 on your ass. — Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, "Tooth and Tail review: Delightful, rodent-riddled StarCraft for the rest of us," 17 Sep. 2017 Credit Karma was careful not to spam members with incessant emails. — Ben Steverman, chicagotribune.com, "Credit Karma claims half of U.S. millennials. What's the draw?," 31 July 2017 Just try not to spam his or her email 10 times a day. — Rebecca Kravetz, Cosmopolitan, "7 Ways to Make Your Boss Fall in Love With You," 8 Oct. 2014

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