blam

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ˈblæm], [ˈblam]

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• Rhymes: -æm

By onomatopoeia.

blam (plural blams)

1. A sudden, explosive sound, such as is made by a gunshot.

   He kicked in the door with a blam.

blam

1. A sudden, explosive sound, such as is made by a gunshot.

   That the last zombie? Here. Let me get that for ya. *BLAM!*

blam (third-person singular simple present blams, present participle blamming, simple past and past participle blammed) (MLE, African-American Vernacular, slang)

1. (intransitive) To fire a gun.
2. (transitive) To shoot; to kill by gunshot.
3. (transitive) To shoot, to propel by means of sudden impact.
   • 2022, “REALIFE”, LF70 (lyrics), 1:29:

     Spin that whip, let me see that dog, Imma blam that goal like Messi, shit gets messy – and I still get him down with my lefty

Blend of blog +‎ spam

blam (uncountable)

1. (Internet, informal) Spam posted to a blog.
   • 2012, Martin Peitz, Joel Waldfogel, The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy:

     […] we refer to unsolicited and unwanted advertising as spam. The phenomenon is widespread, and has led people to coin terms for it in other information product or service contexts, such as splog or blam (unsolicited advertisements in blog comments), spim (instant messaging), […]

   • 2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, Internet Marketing, SEO & Advertising:

     To counter this effect, spammers attempt to create links to their sites on other people's pages. The most common targets for this kind of spam are weblogs, the spamming then being known as blog spam, or "blam" for short.

• ALBM, BAML, LBMA, Lamb, balm, lamb

blam

1. (rare) alternative form of blame

Borrowed from French blâme.

blam n (plural blamuri)

1. public disapproval, condemnation

Back-formation from blamírati.

blȃm m inan (Cyrillic spelling бла̑м)

1. (Serbia, colloquial) (feeling of) embarrassment

• blamáža (“(an instance of) embarrassment”)
• blamírati (“to embarrass”)