spam
意味
- スパム(コンビーフに似た豚肉かん詰の商標名:アメリカ軍に占領された歴史の長い場所、例えば沖縄・ハワイ・フィリピンなど、で郷土料理に採り入れられることが多い)
迷惑メール
迷惑メールを送る
例文
Another spam article hoping for click-throughs?
またアフィ狙いの記事か。
This is so annoying. I'm getting spam again.
うっとうしい、また迷惑メール来てる。
Look in your spam folder.
スパムフォルダを確認してみて。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
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. 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.