SPAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Spam mean? 

• SPAM (noun)
  The noun SPAM has 2 senses:

1. a canned meat made largely from pork

2. unwanted e-mail (usually of a commercial nature sent out in bulk)

  Familiarity information: SPAM used as a noun is rare.

• SPAM (verb)
  The verb SPAM has 1 sense:

1. send unwanted or junk e-mail

  Familiarity information: SPAM used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A canned meat made largely from pork

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("Spam" is a kind of...):

canned meat; tinned meat (meat preserved in a can or tin)

Domain usage:

trademark (a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Unwanted e-mail (usually of a commercial nature sent out in bulk)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

junk e-mail; spam

Hypernyms ("spam" is a kind of...):

e-mail; electronic mail; email ((computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in)

• SPAM (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they spam    ... he / she / it spams   
Past simple: spammed   
Past participle: spammed   
-ing form: spamming   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Send unwanted or junk e-mail

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "spam" is one way to...):

e-mail; email; netmail (communicate electronically on the computer)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody