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Definition spam in American English

spam noun

[uncountable] noun
/spæm/

From Spam, the trade name for a type of cooked meat that is sold in cans. Because people had to eat so much of it during World War II, it became the object of many jokes.

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e-mails that are sent to large numbers of people on the Internet, especially when these are not wanted

Definition spam in American English