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sporge

sporge verb: to engage in sporgery; to post a flood of articles to a Usenet newsgroup, the article headers having been falsified so as to make the articles appear to have been posted by people other than the true poster.

Verb

sporge (third-person singular simple present sporges, present participle sporging, simple past and past participle sporged)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To engage in sporgery; to post a flood of articles to a Usenet newsgroup, the article headers having been falsified so as to make the articles appear to have been posted by people other than the true poster.
    • On September 19'th of last year the crooks started sporging other news groups with neo-Nazi and White Supremist text farmed from other news groups.1999 June 25, Fredric L. Rice, “WHAT IS THIS STRANGE LANGUAGE ?!”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet)

Forms of sporge

third-person singular presentsporges
present participlesporging
past participlesporged
pastsporged

Origin of sporge

Back-formation from sporgery.

Questions about sporge

What does sporge mean?
Sporge means to engage in sporgery; to post a flood of articles to a Usenet newsgroup, the article headers having been falsified so as to make the articles appear to have been posted by people other than the true poster.
What part of speech is sporge?
Sporge is a verb.
What is the past tense of sporge?
The past tense of sporge is sporged.

Words near sporge in the dictionary

  1. Sporers
  2. spores
  3. sporf
  4. sporfle
  5. sporfs
  6. sporge
  7. sporged
  8. sporgeries
  9. sporgery
  10. sporges
  11. sporging

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