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sporge en · VERB

Etymology

Back-formation from sporgery.

Meanings

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To engage in sporgery; to post a flood of articles to a Usenet newsgroup, the article headers having been falsified so as to make the articles appear to have been posted by people other than the true poster.
    • On September 19'th of last year the crooks started sporging other news groups with neo-Nazi and White Supremist text farmed from other news groups. 1999 June 25, Fredric L. Rice, “WHAT IS THIS STRANGE LANGUAGE ?!”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):

Forms

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sporges Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
sporged Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
sporged Tense=Past lexicographic
sporging Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic