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spimming en · NOUN

Etymology

From spim + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (Internet, uncountable) The sending of spim.
    • 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: