spam

1. (uncountable, rarely countable, computing, Internet) Unsolicited bulk electronic messages.Examples: "I get far too much spam."; "I received 58 spams yesterday."; "In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters."Synonyms: junk mailAntonyms: hamInternetcountablerareuncountable

2. (uncountable, computing, Internet) Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.Examples: "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."Internetuncountable

3. (Internet) Excessive, often unwanted and repeated online messages.Internetcountableuncountable

4. (Internet) Ellipsis of spam account.Internetabbreviationalt-ofcountableellipsisuncountable

5. (by extension, often video games) A large quantity or multitude of anything done repetitively or considered unusually or indiscriminately repetitive.broadlycountableoftenuncountable