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  • noun Plural form of bam.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bam.

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Examples

  • Happily the only sign of an oppressive regime indoors is the one featuring the house rules, stating "No football shirts, no bams and no winching at the bar" for those unfamiliar with Glasgow slang, bams are undesirable-types and winching means snogging.

    Clubs picks of the week 2011

  • The second of Egan's paragraph starts with four bams (the Oakland cops slain on March 21), the third with five bams (for each child murdered by their own father here in Washington State), the fourth with 13 bams (the Binghampton, N.Y., immigrants and their teachers).

    Norm Stamper: A Month of Killing, More on the Way? 2009

  • Tonight, Misty Croslin ` s brother, behind bars on a gun charge, now confessing he was at the home the night Haleigh goes missing, bams on the door, nobody home.

    CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2009 2009

  • This was going to be the mother of all bams and when I struck the car this last time, "Crash!"

    Lesson in the Woods Susan 2008

  • This was going to be the mother of all bams and when I struck the car this last time, "Crash!"

    Archive 2008-07-01 Belinda 2008

  • Or the one thing of which your passion drove you to go for but now that passion is lost and buried deep in the muck of weariness and endless drivel and wham-bams.

    rouflaquette Diary Entry rouflaquette 2007

  • "You could hear booms and bams from somewhere outside the stadium, too," Brennan said.

    USATODAY.com - Campers in the outfield 2002

  • 'You've got your nuggets, your zoomers, your screamers, your steamers, your bams and your rockets.

    Boiling a frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

  • Even if you piss them off, bams can sometimes be reasoned with, unlike rockets. '

    Boiling a frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

  • 'You've got your nuggets, your zoomers, your screamers, your steamers, your bams and your rockets.

    Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

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