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spimmer

spimmer noun: one who sends spim (unsolicited instant messages).

Noun

spimmer (plural spimmers)

  1. One who sends spim (unsolicited instant messages).
    • Spam in e-mail isn't new. But as barriers to it have succeeded, spimmers have taken fresh aim at IM.2004, Newsweek, volume 143, page iii
    • Most forecasters are predicting that spim will spin out of control as soon as spimmers find a way to abscond with large numbers of IM screen names, which are not as readily available as e-mail addresses.2004, Larry Long, Personal Computing Demystified, page 225

Examples of spimmer in a sentence

  • Some aggressive spimmers learned how to take over one IMer's contact list — threatening a company's entire IM system!2007, Bill Daley, Computers Are Your Future, page 70:
  • Spimmers clog mobile devices by sending tones^([sic]) of unwanted SMS or MMS and hence making the devices useless.2012, Natarajan Meghanathan, Nabendu Chaki, Dhinaharan Nagamalai, Advances in Computer Science and Information Technology:

Forms of spimmer

pluralspimmers

Origin of spimmer

From spim + -er.

Questions about spimmer

What does spimmer mean?
Spimmer means one who sends spim (unsolicited instant messages).
How do you use spimmer in a sentence?
Some aggressive spimmers learned how to take over one IMer's contact list — threatening a company's entire IM system!
What part of speech is spimmer?
Spimmer is a noun.
What is the plural of spimmer?
The plural of spimmer is spimmers.

Words near spimmer in the dictionary

  1. spilths
  2. spilus
  3. spim
  4. spime
  5. spimes
  6. spimmer
  7. spimmers
  8. spimming
  9. spims
  10. spin
  11. spin a tale

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