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noun
bam  n.  An imposition; a cheat; a hoax. "To relieve the tedium, he kept plying them with all manner of bams."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Bam" Quotes from Famous Books



... turning his horse's head, would exclaim, "Oh, caram-bam- bam-ba!" And she, seeing him going, would rush out after us, shrieking, "Don't caram-bam-bam-ba me! You are not to go to the river this day—I forbid it! I know if you go to the river this day there will be a terrible calamity! Listen to me, Dardo, rebel, devil that ...
— Far Away and Long Ago • W. H. Hudson

... the non-com sharply, as he held the lantern as high as he could and made its light play in every direction. "All a bam to scare us, sir. No, no!" he yelled. "Keep back, every one. Up here, sir, in this hole. There's a bag that looks like those we found. Take ...
— The Kopje Garrison - A Story of the Boer War • George Manville Fenn

... the conqueror caused to be presented to himself on dishes 35,000 pairs of eyes! Thirty thousand women and children were reduced to slavery.... It is at Bam, a small village 140 miles to the south-east of Kirman, that Luft Ali Khan was made a prisoner and delivered over to his enemy who, with his own hands, tore out his eyes before causing him to perish. Sir H. Pottinger saw, in 1810, a trophy of 600 skulls raised in ...
— Les Parsis • D. Menant



Words linked to "Bam" :   Iran, clap, blast, bang, Islamic Republic of Iran, water hammer



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