blam

See also: BLAM, blăm, and błam

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ˈblæm], [ˈblam]

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1

By onomatopoeia.

Noun

blam (plural blams)

1. A sudden, explosive sound, such as is made by a gunshot.

   He kicked in the door with a blam.

Interjection

blam

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

blam (third-person singular simple present blams, present participle blamming, simple past and past participle blammed) (MLE, African-American Vernacular, slang)

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.
   • 2022, “REALIFE”, LF70 (lyrics), 1:29:

     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

Derived terms

• blammo
• blam up (“shoot up”)
• kablam

 

Etymology 2

Blend of blog +‎ spam

Noun

blam (uncountable)

1. (Internet, informal) Spam posted to a blog.
   • 2012, Martin Peitz, Joel Waldfogel, The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy:

     […] 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), […]

   • 2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, Internet Marketing, SEO & Advertising:

     To counter this effect, spammers attempt to create links to their sites on other people's pages. The most common targets for this kind of spam are weblogs, the spamming then being known as blog spam, or "blam" for short.

Anagrams

• ALBM, BAML, LBMA, Lamb, balm, lamb

Middle English

Noun

blam

1. (rare) Alternative form of blame

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French blâme.

Noun

blam n (plural blamuri)

1. public disapproval, condemnation

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	blam	blamul		blamuri	blamurile
genitive-dative	blam	blamului		blamuri	blamurilor
vocative	blamule			blamurilor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Back-formation from blamírati.

Noun

blȃm m (Cyrillic spelling бла̑м)

1. (Serbia, colloquial) (feeling of) embarrassment

Related terms

• blamáža (“(an instance of) embarrassment”)
• blamírati (“to embarrass”)