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spamhook

1. n., a post-tech age noun that actually describes nothing at all; a virtual entity on bulletin boards and internet dating sites.

2. specifically, an ad or personal page for a person that in fact does not exist, using a picture that has been pirated from someone else, designed to entice or 'hook' people to respond to the ad, in order to gather the resulting email address and add it to a list for spamming; typically spamhooks accumulate the email address and then respond back to it with an advertisement for a porn site.

3. often an element of 'spamhook recursion', where spamhook #1 will gather your address and spam you to go get your rocks off at dating site #1, where dating site #1 will have various spamhooks listed with great looking females to create responses so you can be spammed about porn site #1, which has shocking photos and "members" to entice you to respond to who will spam you again about dating site #1. The recursion can be multiple layers deep, endless, and accumulative: site #1 can refer you to #3 which refers you back to #1 and also to #4 which refers you to #5 and also back to three leading to an cascade of spam that will fill your inbox and crash your email.

4. spamhooks create synergy: the common dating site spamhook is very demanding and "requires" a photo of you or the person (spamhook) won't even open your email; this photo you send will then be placed in a "m4w" ad, placed to an audience of women, and used to attract more pictures of women which may be placed in other "w4m" ads with pictures to attract more men's responses. Conspiracy theorists believe that when the number of photos available to spamhook builders approaches Avagadro's Number then the universe will onto Motorola's original 68000 computer chip.

5. made universally popular on Craigslist, where the latent spamhook lurks: this spamhook receives your response for a date, but waits to respond until the community "spamflags" the post down, so you are never exactly sure which ad or why generated the spam.

6. professional spamhooks never include your original message in their spamming reply, thereby adding more confusion and resulting camouflage to the process.

7. spamhooks are central to the Craigslist business model, and indeed, the Craigslist owners own various porn/spamming entities that are guaranteed a market because of the existence of Craigslist. Spam is not a problem on Craigslist. Rather, Craigslist exists BECAUSE of spam.
Friend #1 surfing the net: "Hey, look at this amazing babe here on Craigslist."

Friend #2: "Is she fat? Is she a single mother?"

Friend #1: "No."

Friend #2: "Don't even bother: she's a spamhook."

Friend #1: "Damn, and she likes showing her tits too."
by Sir Robert Miller December 31, 2008
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spathos

The superfluous, melodramatic and misleading language of titles in certain websites, designed to influence people to click through in social media. A merge of spam and pathos. See also link bait.
"I refuse to click a link that has the phrase What Happened Next Was Amazing in its title. It's just too full of spathos."
by nemesh April 4, 2014
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Stashole

Stasholes are them types of people that keep stashes of goods (candy, sweets, etc.) in the spot(s) where everyone knows, and not give you any permission to have some.
Friend 1: I wonder if John will finally let me have a piece of candy that he got.
Friend 2: No way he'll say yes.
Friend 1: Why do you think that?
Friend 3: Because he's an stashole, if you know what that is.
Friend 1: Ohh one of them guys. Yeah never mind.
by Jeremiah Lovestein August 11, 2016
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SAShole

Semester at Sea voyagers
Glad to see the SASholes back together!
by ThisGuuyy November 16, 2017
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Spagho

The art of purposely acting unintelligent. Much like my acquaintance, Nicole.
Oh my gosh, Susan is such a spagho!
by spagho monster February 19, 2018
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spaghool

A spaghool is another form of a silly billy, and or Kayla Kennedy
Kayla is a spaghool
by Brother Mark September 5, 2022
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Sasho Lulin

Two words that summarise a chemist that risks his life every day. Uses his balcony as a fumehood in Sofia's most underrated districts - Lulin. Also "Sasho Lulin" can be used in the context of a 13 year gypsy.
Ako strelqsh v tumnoto shte ucelish Sasho Lulina.
by Sasho lulina July 27, 2023
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