Dictionary

spimmer en · NOUN

Etymology

From spim + -er.

Meanings

1. One who sends spim (unsolicited instant messages).
   • Spimmers clog mobile devices by sending tones^([sic]) of unwanted SMS or MMS and hence making the devices useless. 2012, Natarajan Meghanathan, Nabendu Chaki, Dhinaharan Nagamalai, Advances in Computer Science and Information Technology:
   • Another threat to the use of IM is a phenomenon known as spimming. Spimming is to IM as spam is to e-mail. Some aggressive spimmers learned how to take over one IMer's contact list — threatening a company's entire IM system! 2007, Bill Daley, Computers Are Your Future, page 70:
   • Spam in e-mail isn't new. But as barriers to it have succeeded, spimmers have taken fresh aim at IM. 2004, Newsweek, volume 143, page iii:
   • Most forecasters are predicting that spim will spin out of control as soon as spimmers find a way to abscond with large numbers of IM screen names, which are not as readily available as e-mail addresses. 2004, Larry Long, Personal Computing Demystified, page 225:

Forms