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spimming

spimming noun: the sending of spim.

Noun

spimming (uncountable)

  1. (Internet) The sending of spim.
    • Another threat to the use of IM is a phenomenon known as spimming. Spimming is to IM as spam is to e-mail. 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

Origin of spimming

From spim + -ing.

Questions about spimming

What does spimming mean?
Spimming means the sending of spim.
What part of speech is spimming?
Spimming is a noun.

Words near spimming in the dictionary

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

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