Green’s Dictionary of Slang

spod v.

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to spend time on newsgroups on the Internet.

T. Bray Kooky.org 🌐 The verb, to spod. This has lots of meanings. • To go and read email/newsgroups, or generally spend time in front of a computer. • To go and put something on the web – ‘I’ll spod that picture’ = ‘I’ll put that picture on my website’. • ‘Have you spodded today?’ = have you been and checked your email (or newsgroups) today. • Q: ‘Have you read the email I sent?’ A: ‘No, I haven’t spodded today’. • ‘Laura is spodding’ – Laura has gone to check her email/newgroups.