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Bam   /bæm/   Listen
Bam

noun
1.
An ancient city in southeastern Iran; destroyed by an earthquake in 2003.
2.
A sudden very loud noise.  Synonyms: bang, blast, clap, eruption.






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"Bam" Quotes from Famous Books



... the soft, passionate music of the nightingale she had never heard. "Then bam-bye w'en the spring come, an' we pitch by Ostachegan creek, an' the crocus flowers are coming up on Sah-ko-da-tah prairie so many as stars in the sky—then you come by our camp, 'Erbe't; and you so poor an' sick I feel ver' bad for you! ...
— Two on the Trail - A Story of the Far Northwest • Hulbert Footner

... forthwith began "Quae maribus solum tribuunter." Aaron's conceit of exorcising a spirit with the fag—end of an old grammar rule would have tickled me under most circumstances; but I was far past laughing. I had more need, God help me, to pray. I made another step. He hitched his chair back. "Bam, Bo, Rem!" shouted the incipient planting attorney. Another hitch, which carried him clean out of the supper—room, and across the narrow piazza; but, in this last movement, he made a regular false step, the two back feet of his chair dropping over the first step of the front stairs, whereupon ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott

... I hove-to him. I hove the bailer at him, that's what I did, and he ducked. But he ducked too late, I callate, for 'Bam!' it caught him—or somebody in the seine-boat with him. He swore some, or somebody swore, you c'n bet. 'I don't know who y'are,' he hollers, 'but if ever I meet you ashore,' and he was so far away then I couldn't ketch ...
— The Seiners • James B. (James Brendan) Connolly



Words linked to "Bam" :   noise, clap, urban center, water hammer, metropolis, eruption, bang, Iran, Persia, blast, Islamic Republic of Iran, city



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