bam
[bam]
- a loud thud, as that produced when two objects strike against each other with force.
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- to make or emit a bam.
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Origin of bam
imitative
B.A.M.
- Bachelor of Applied Mathematics.
- Bachelor of Arts in Music.
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Contemporary Examples
Then, in May 2016, Scotland would become independent—and suddenly, bam, those 40-odd Labour-held seats would vaporize.
At the BAM screening, most shades of hair color that are chromatically possible were in evidence.
“People have been feeding their kids that way for thousands for years,” she said at the BAM QA.
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May 30, 2014
I lasted about five minutes and then, BAM, the coconut oil ended up in my garbage.
When Bam walks in and it just shellacks him and takes him right off his feet?
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October 25, 2013
Historical Examples
It is now nine o'clock and in an hour the people of Bam will be asleep.
From Pole to PoleSven Anders Hedin
Pairing, or bam tush, as the Indians call it, is a simple stitch.
The Child's Rainy Day BookMary White
They'll drive old Bess all over the country before they drive her to the bam.
PlaysSusan Glaspell
As a diplomatist he could scarcely show more indifference to the Alabama claim, if the claim itself were All a Bam.
I can bam as well as any man when bam is the word, but when fact is the play, I am right up and down, and true as a trivet.
The AttacheThomas Chandler Haliburton
Word Origin and History for bam
interjection, imitative of the sound of a hard hit, first recorded 1922 (from 1917 as the sound of an artillery shell bursting). Middle English had a verb bammen "to hit or strike" (late 14c.). A literary work from c.1450 represents the sound of repeated impact by Lus, bus! las, das!, and Middle English had lushe "a stroke, blow" (c.1400); lushen "to strike, knock, beat" (c.1300).
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