bam
intj/bæm/
Etymology
Perhaps from bamboozle.
Definitions
Representing a loud noise or heavy impact.
- The wind knocked the tree over last night. Bam! It nearly scared me to death.
- We all looked up from the maps, silent, and listened to the hurried footsteps in the entryway. They padded up the red carpet, bam-bam-bam, and across the landing and then up the next flight at a gallop, bam-bam-bam.
Representing a sudden or abrupt occurrence.
- She said she dumped him. Now — bam! — they're back together.
A ned
A ned; a bampot.
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An imposition
An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
- To relieve the tedium he kept plying them with all manner of bams.
To impose on (someone) by a falsehood
To impose on (someone) by a falsehood; to cheat.
- This is some conspiracy, I suppose, to bam, to chouse me out of my money
- I’ll break a lamp, bully a constable, bam a justice, or bilk a boxkeeper with any man in the liberties of Westminster.
To jeer or make fun of.
Abbreviation of bare-arse minimum.
Initialism of bile acid malabsorption.
Initialism of business activity monitoring.
Abbreviation of binary angular measurement
Initialism of Baikal–Amur Mainline.
The capital city of Bam County, Kerman Province, Iran.
A county of Kerman Province, Iran.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for bam. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA