SPAM

Spam typically refers to any of the following:

• SPAM - a brand of canned meat sold by Hormel
• Spam (Monty Python), a comedy sketch involving this meat, which in turn gave rise to the sense below.
• Spam (electronic) - unsolicited bulk electronic messages, such as e-mail spam.
• Repeated, undesired messages in IRC, MUDs and other Internet chats and games, meant to disrupt normal discussion.
• Pointless, subjectless posting on a bulletin board forum.
• SPAM is a backronym of the words: Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages, or, when forums are concerned: Several Posts A Minute.
• Street spam is illegal blanket advertising in public places

Other uses of the term include:

• A character from the Tolkien parody Bored of the Rings.
• Any of a number of fanzines and magazines of the same name such as Spam magazine, published in the mid-1990s in Houghton, Michigan.
• Grenade Spam: Spam (Team Fortress)
• In first person shooters, a spammy weapon is a weapon which doesn't need an aim to hit the target.
• In fighting games, "spamming a move" involves repeatedly using a single move above all others.

This word has been voted by a British translation company in June 2004 as one of the ten English words that are hardest to translate, but in fact it is now used in many other languages in its English form with the same exact meaning, due to its use on the Internet.

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• Origin of term "spam" to mean net abuse
• Spammer Killer