spamming

Verb

spam (third-person singular simple present spams, present participle spamming, simple past and past participle spammed)

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.1993 March 31, Joel Furr, “ARMM: ARMM: >>>>Ad Infinitum”, in alt.folklore.computers (Usenet), message-ID <d5SlxvmhmNwJ>
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!

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