Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to spam
Participle: spammed
Gerund: spamming
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | spam |
| you | spam |
| he;she;it | spams |
| we | spam |
| you | spam |
| they | spam |
Perfect
| I | have spammed |
| you | have spammed |
| he;she;it | has spammed |
| we | have spammed |
| you | have spammed |
| they | have spammed |
Past
| I | spammed |
| you | spammed |
| he;she;it | spammed |
| we | spammed |
| you | spammed |
| they | spammed |
Pluperfect
| I | had spammed |
| you | had spammed |
| he;she;it | had spammed |
| we | had spammed |
| you | had spammed |
| they | had spammed |
Future
| I | will spam |
| you | will spam |
| he;she;it | will spam |
| we | will spam |
| you | will spam |
| they | will spam |
Future Perfect
| I | will have spammed |
| you | will have spammed |
| he;she;it | will have spammed |
| we | will have spammed |
| you | will have spammed |
| they | will have spammed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | spam |
| you | spam |
| he;she;it | spam |
| we | spam |
| you | spam |
| they | spam |
Perfect
| I | have spammed |
| you | have spammed |
| he;she;it | have spammed |
| we | have spammed |
| you | have spammed |
| they | have spammed |
Imperfect
| I | spammed |
| you | spammed |
| he;she;it | spammed |
| we | spammed |
| you | spammed |
| they | spammed |
Pluperfect
| I | had spammed |
| you | had spammed |
| he;she;it | had spammed |
| we | had spammed |
| you | had spammed |
| they | had spammed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would spam |
| you | would spam |
| he;she;it | would spam |
| we | would spam |
| you | would spam |
| they | would spam |
Perfect
| I | would have spammed |
| you | would have spammed |
| he;she;it | would have spammed |
| we | would have spammed |
| you | would have spammed |
| they | would have spammed |
Imperative
| you | spam |
| we | Let's spam |
| you | spam |
Verbs conjugated like 'spam'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'spam'
pam,
sam,
scam,
seam,
sham,
slam,
span,
spar,
spasm,
spat,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 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.
2. 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.
Verbs referencing "spam"
Italian
spammare, Dutch
spammen, Danish
spamme, Spanish
espamear.
Sample Sentences
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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. [1993 March 31, Joel Furr, “ARMM: ARMM: >>>>Ad Infinitum”, in alt.folklore.computers (Usenet), message-ID :]
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Stop spamming that special attack!
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Spam the Z key to get a speed boost.