glam

See also: GLAM, Glam, and głam

English

glam (uncountable)

Glamour.
(music, fashion) Ellipsis of glam rock.; the fashion and culture associated with this genre.
Synonym: glitter
- 2016 October 7, Sukhdev Sandhu, “Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy by Simon Reynolds”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:
  Blokes sporting make-up and vertiginous platform boots, songs that were precision-tooled melodramas of bubblegum pop and football-terrace stomp, a belief in pop itself as a liberating space for fantasy and shape-shifting: it’s perhaps unsurprising that glam, in whose rise Bowie played a huge part, has never been taken very seriously.

glam (comparative glammer, superlative glammest)

glam (third-person singular simple present glams, present participle glamming, simple past and past participle glammed)

To make glamorous or more glamorous.
- 2017, Bernard MacLaverty, “Chapter 10”, in Midwinter Break, page 204:
  He would become absorbed in what he was doing and forget that they were going out to a reception at the City Hall or somewhere. Stella would appear at the study door all glammed up in her best coat and he would look up from his reading like a startled animal caught drinking at a watering hole.

Usually used in the phrasal verb glam up.

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glam m (plural glams)

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