to wham
- verb
- /wæm/
- Informal
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- I ought to wham the daylights out of you, scaring everybody to death.
I've walked over, shook his hand and gone Wham and just punched him in his mouth and just knocked him out, bust his face.
- I've walked over, shook his hand and gone Wham and just punched him in his mouth and just knocked him out, bust his face.
Examples
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The child accidentally whammed his toy against the wall, making a loud noise.
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Come on, wham it.
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I nonchalantly walk over there, and wham right in the fuckin' balls.
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I've walked over, shook his hand and gone Wham and just punched him in his mouth and just knocked him out, bust his face.
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They'll wham their Who-Wonkers.
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While the opening credits of The Newsroom don't really do much for me, the overwrought iron of the instruments is perhaps a little much; the two to three seconds of footage that preceded them do: a scratch of static, a whir, and then wham 'HBO'.
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He swung the bat and wham, the ball flew into the outfield.
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With a loud wham, the door slammed shut behind her.
Synonyms
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5.5
To hit someone or something hard so it makes a loud sound
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3.3
To hit something with great force, often in sport
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7.9
To hit someone or something very hard
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8.0
To hit something hard with a flat object so it makes a loud sound
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7.3
To hit something or someone very hard
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9.9
To hit someone or something hard
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8.1
To hit something or someone hard and make a loud sound
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8.9
Hit someone or something quickly and hard
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9.0
To hit something so it makes a dull heavy sound
To hit something suddenly with great force
To hit something quickly with a short, sharp blow
To hit something so it makes a dull heavy sound
Antonyms
How Forceful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Wham is a sound word that copies the noise of a sudden, heavy hit, a kind of 'heavy strike', and it is like words such as whack or bam. So to wham something is to hit it hard, which matches the noisy image of the word.