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Spam

Spam

24 1.9
A canned, cooked pork food often used in sandwiches and fried with eggs
  • noun
  • /spæm/
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  • I made a delicious sandwich with Spam, cheese, and mustard.
  • Spam cans
  • Spam musubi
  • Spam sandwich

McDonald's China offering offers burger featuring Spam and crushed Oreos.

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Examples

  • I've opened a can of Spam and made a treacle tart.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • And to give it that little extra zip, I mix in some Spam with the ground beef.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • So I am going to try SPAM for the first time.

  • Left a can of Spam in the refrigerator.

  • One block of frozen spam still smells bad.

  • When you live off Spam and Wonder Bread, tuna salad on wheat starts to look pretty good.

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  • Americans were eating canned Spam when times were rough.

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  • OK, so mom made some Korean BBQ spam and rice just for like a quick lunch before we go out to the snow.

  • For dinner, we had fried Spam with eggs and toast.

  • The recipe called for Spam as a main ingredient in the casserole.

Synonyms

5 3.6

A small thin cooked sausage sold in cans or jars

is a specific branded pork product mainly used in sandwiches
canned meat
vsSpam
  • US
1 1.8

Meat kept in a sealed can to last a long time

is a specific branded pork product often used in sandwiches

Idioms

spam in a can
  • Informal
8.6

A thing that is cheap and has little value

How Processed

meat crayon
  • Slang
9.9
Spam
24 1.9
burger
406 1.0
sausage
184 1.0
ground beef
  • US
19 1.0
steak
474 1.0

Surface Forms

Spam singular
Spams plural

Etymology

Spam was created by the Hormel company as a short, catchy name from the phrase 'spiced ham', so the brand name points to its canned pork product.