spade

n 1: a playing card in the major suit of spades

2: a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with

the foot

3: ethnic slur; offensive name for Black person [syn: {nigger},

{coon}, {jigaboo}, {nigra}]

v : dig (up) with a spade; "I spade compost into the flower

beds"

spamdex

(Presumably from "{spam}", "index") {word

spamming}.

"Spamdexing has come a long way from the halcyon days of the

summer of 1995. Back then, all one needed to do was add the

word 'sex' a thousand times at the end of a Web page to

attract attention from the likes of Lycos. The search-engine

operators caught on fast" -- {Andrew Leonard, Hotwired 1996

(http://www.packet.com/packet/leonard/96/32/index3a.html)}.

(1997-04-09)