"sporge" meaning in English

See sporge in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: sporges [present, singular, third-person], sporging [participle, present], sporged [participle, past], sporged [past]
Etymology: Back-formation from sporgery. Etymology templates: {{etymon|en|id=spam}}, {{backform|en|sporgery}} Back-formation from sporgery Head templates: {{en-verb}} sporge (third-person singular simple present sporges, present participle sporging, simple past and past participle sporged)
  1. (intransitive, transitive, computing) 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. Tags: intransitive, transitive Categories (topical): Computing

Inflected forms

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