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Bayhem

noun

Etymology

Blend of Bay + mayhem, after American director Michael Bay.

  1. derived from *mey-✻
  2. derived from *maidijaną✻
  3. derived from meshaing
  4. derived from mahaim
  5. inherited from mayehem
  6. compounded as bayhem — “Bay + mayhem”

Definitions

  1. Frenetic and fast-paced action characteristic of the films of Michael Bay.

    • Michael Bay’s second Transformers saga delivers full-bore “Bayhem” like a brick to the forehead, with some tender love on the side, making this either the biggest blockbuster of summer ’09 or history’s loudest romance.
    • Typical of Michael Bay's manic “Bayhem” style (discussed earlier), Armageddon focuses more on the masculine heroics of the crew sent to blow up the asteroid.
    • Con Air is Bayhem without the vision—something that was already becoming the prevailing Hollywood action film aesthetic.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA