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flame noun. An insulting, emotional, caustic email message or newsgroup posting.

Example Citation:
"Consumerama boasts that it's run by people 'with a *BEEF* & a WEBSITE!' An on-line forum for flames, bellyaches and the surrealistic Naked Mole-Rats of Marketing Award, it's fun to browse even if you don't have a gripe."
—Sam Vincent Meddis, "Space, colorful wonders and down-to-earth concerns," USA Today, September 15, 1999

Related Words:
dictionary flame
flame sandwich
moon the giant
nastygram

Subject Categories:
Computers - E-mail
Computers - Internet

Posted on January 5, 1996 at 7:28 AM


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