spimmer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who sends spim (unsolicited instant messages).
Example Sentences
- "Spam in e-mail isn't new. But as barriers to it have succeeded, spimmers have taken fresh aim at IM."
- "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."
- "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!"
- "Spimmers clog mobile devices by sending tones^([sic]) of unwanted SMS or MMS and hence making the devices useless."
Etymology
From spim + -er.