glam

Clipping of glamour.

• IPA^(key): /ɡlæm/

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• Rhymes: -æm

glam (uncountable)

1. Glamour; glamorousness.
   • 1939 July 19, The Bulletin, Sydney, page 14, column 1:

     Who wouldn’t be a glamor girl, a certain-to-enamor girl?
     What joie de vivre in her life is given her to cram,
     The dinkum sex-appealing girl, the subtle-charm-revealing girl,
     ’Mong men the havoc-dealing girl—in short, the girl with glam.!

2. (music, fashion) Ellipsis of glam rock, the fashion and culture associated with this genre.

   Synonym: glitter

   • 2016 October 7, Sukhdev Sandhu, “Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy by Simon Reynolds”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Blokes sporting make-up and vertiginous platform boots, songs that were precision-tooled melodramas of bubblegum pop and football-terrace stomp, a belief in pop itself as a liberating space for fantasy and shape-shifting: it’s perhaps unsurprising that glam, in whose rise Bowie played a huge part, has never been taken very seriously.

glam (comparative glammer, superlative glammest)

1. (slang) Glamorous.

glam (third-person singular simple present glams, present participle glamming, simple past and past participle glammed)

1. To make glamorous or more glamorous. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Usually used in the phrasal verb glam up.

• glitz

• mGal

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlam/
• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: glam

glam

1. second-person singular imperative of glamać

glam m (plural glams)

1. glam

glam n

1. loud expressions of joy, loud merriment

• glamma

• glam in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• glam in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)