pam

¹ American  

[pam] / pæm /

noun

Cards.

1. the jack of clubs, especially in a form of loo in which it is the best trump.

2. a game in which this card is trump.

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Pam ² American  

[pam] / pæm /

noun

1. a female given name, form of Pamela.

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PAM ³ American  

1. Aerospace. payload assist module.

2. Telecommunications. pulse-amplitude modulation.

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pam. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. pamphlet.

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Etymology

Origin of pam

1675–85; short for French pamphile, special use of Pamphile man's name

Example Sentences

“There were three sounds, like ‘pam, pam, pam.’”

From Slate • Nov. 11, 2019

Storm spread swiftly, but  more  worrisome  and  fascinating  than  its speed was the technical muscle behind the scenes, visible to those antis- pam groups and companies that watched the bot world.

From Scientific American • Jun. 21, 2013

The tenors enter with "Dum pum pum pum ti di diri diri"; then the ladies: "Tara dira dara diri didi di pum pum pam!"

From Time Magazine Archive

They call them likewise glyce, or primitive men; and in their assemblies invoke their ancestors and deities in a loud voice, crying Pom, pam, pum, mari, mari, Epunamen, Amimalguen, Pegni Epatum.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

Pam, pam, n. the knave of clubs at loo.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various