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bam¹

  • /bæm/ Australia, Canada, US
  • /bam/ British, Northern England, Scotland
  • /bɛm/ New Zealand

Rhymes with -æm

Where it comes from

Onomatopoeic.

interjection

  1. Representing a loud noise or heavy impact. The wind knocked the tree over last night. Bam! It nearly scared me to death.
  2. Representing a sudden or abrupt occurrence. She said she dumped him. Now — bam! — they're back together.

Similar: bang, blam, pow, wham, dishoom

bam²

  • /bæm/ Australia, Canada, US
  • /bam/ British, Northern England, Scotland
  • /bɛm/ New Zealand

Rhymes with -æm

noun bams

  1. Scotland, slang A ned; a bampot.

bam³

  • /bæm/ Australia, Canada, US
  • /bam/ British, Northern England, Scotland
  • /bɛm/ New Zealand

Rhymes with -æm

Where it comes from

Perhaps from bamboozle.

noun bams

  1. archaic, slang An imposition; a cheat; a hoax. To relieve the tedium he kept plying them with all manner of bams.

verb bams · bamming · bammed

  1. archaic, slang To impose on (someone) by a falsehood; to cheat. This is some conspiracy, I suppose, to bam, to chouse me out of my money
  2. archaic, slang To jeer or make fun of.

bam⁴

  • /bæm/ Australia, Canada, US
  • /bam/ British, Northern England, Scotland
  • /bɛm/ New Zealand

Rhymes with -æm

noun bams

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of bare-arse minimum

BAM⁵

noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of bile acid malabsorption
  2. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of business activity monitoring
  3. abbreviation, uncountable Abbreviation of binary angular measurement

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Baikal–Amur Mainline

Bam⁶

proper noun

  1. The capital city of Bam County, Kerman Province, Iran.
  2. A county of Kerman Province, Iran.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: umm, nap, mab, bum, bim, boom, bump, bang, thump, wham, buddy, mother, bing, rpm, map, pan

interjection

Similar: bang, blam, pow, wham, dishoom

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APA

bam. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/bam

Chicago

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BibTeX
@misc{bam_2026,
  title = {bam},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bam},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}