bam

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noun
  1. a loud thud, as that produced when two objects strike against each other with force.

verb (used without object),bammed, bam·ming.
  1. to make or emit a bam.

Origin of bam

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Imitative

Other definitions for B.A.M. (2 of 2)

B.A.M.

abbreviation
  1. Bachelor of Applied Mathematics.

  2. Bachelor of Arts in Music.

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How to use bam in a sentence

  • Except for their names and their flagstaffs you might have taken them for two rather hastily built and long-neglected bams.

    Back Home | Irvin S. Cobb
  • The wild fictions of the Conversations were not Medwinian falsehoods, but pure Byronic bams.

    The Real Shelley, Vol. II (of 2) | John Cordy Jeaffreson
  • The family consumed about two cows a week in beef; besides hares, pheasants, bams, and capons at will.

  • Bunkum, like lyin', is plaguy apt to make a man believe his own bams at last.

    The Attache | Thomas Chandler Haliburton