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mail bomb
(mail bomb)
noun
1
US
a letter bomb.
2
an overwhelming quantity of email messages sent to one address:
what happens if advertisers don’t respond to entreaties and mail bombs?
verb
(
mail-bomb
)
[
with object
]
send an overwhelming quantity of email messages to (someone):
if the netizens are really annoyed they’ll mail-bomb you
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