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sporge

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive, transitive

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

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History

Etymology

Back-formation from sporgery.