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spam

nomverbeattesté dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//spæm//
  • Royaume-Uni//spam//
  • Australie//spæːm//
  • //spæm//
  • /[speəm]/

Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.

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  1. 1

    rareUnsolicited bulk electronic messages.

    I get far too much spam.

    I received 58 spams yesterday.

  2. 2

    Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.

    An Act to provide for the control of spam, which is unsolicited commercial communications sent in bulk by electronic mail or by text or multi-media messaging to mobile telephone numbers, and to provide for matters connected therewith.

  3. 3

    Excessive, often unwanted and repeated online messages.

  4. 4

    A large quantity or multitude of anything done repetitively or considered unusually or indiscriminately repetitive.

  5. 5

    A type of tinned meat made mainly from ham.

  6. 6

    Variante de spam accountEllipsis of spam account.

Étymologie

The original sense (canned ham) is a proprietary name registered by Geo. A. Hormel & Co. in U.S., 1937. It is presumed to be a conflation of either "spiced ham" or "shoulder of pork and ham" but was soon extended to other kinds of canned meat. Hormel spells the trademarked name in all upper case. The use for unsolicited and unwanted email derives from a Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch. In the 1970 sketch, a group of Vikings in a restaurant repeatedly chant the word "spam". The earliest recorded real-life use for this sense occurs around 1993 which finds reference in a newsgroup post dated March 31, 1993, but the term may have been in use on "Multi-User Dungeons" (MUDs) in the 1980s.

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  1. 1

    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.

  2. 2

    To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages) to a person or entity.

  3. 3

    To send messages repeatedly, often with disruptive effect; to flood.

  4. 4

    To do something rapidly and repeatedly.

    Stop spamming that special attack!

    Spam the Z key to get a speed boost.

Formes

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passé
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participe passé
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participe présent
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3ᵉ personne du singulier
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Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).