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blam¹

  • [ˈblæm] UK
  • [ˈblam] UK

Rhymes with -æm

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By onomatopoeia.

noun blams

  1. A sudden, explosive sound, such as is made by a gunshot. He kicked in the door with a blam.

interjection

  1. A sudden, explosive sound, such as is made by a gunshot. That the last zombie? Here. Let me get that for ya. *BLAM!*

verb blams · blamming · blammed

  1. intransitive To fire a gun.
  2. transitive To shoot; to kill by gunshot.
  3. transitive To shoot, to propel by means of sudden impact. Spin that whip, let me see that dog, Imma blam that goal like Messi, shit gets messy – and I still get him down with my lefty

verb blams · blamming · blammed

  1. transitive To unpublish or remove (a user-submitted movie/game) for having a rating below two stars. My game got blammed.
  2. transitive To rate a (user-submitted movie/game) below two stars. That was a test animation, so I blammed it.

blam²

  • [ˈblæm] UK
  • [ˈblam] UK

Rhymes with -æm

noun

  1. Internet, informal, uncountable Spam posted to a blog. […] we refer to unsolicited and unwanted advertising as spam. The phenomenon is widespread, and has led people to coin terms for it in other information product or service contexts, such as splog or blam (unsolicited advertisements in blog comments), spim (instant messaging), […]

BLAM³

noun BLAMs

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of big-lipped alligator moment

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"blam." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/blam. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

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

Chicago

"blam." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/blam.

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@misc{blam_2026,
  title = {blam},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/blam},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}