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noun

ˈ(h)wam

as in thud

a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument gave the TV a good wham with her fist, and suddenly the picture came back on

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Recent Examples of wham

Noun

TreVeyon Henderson covered 12 yards on a wham run, then 18 more on a misdirection toss where fullback Jack Westover and right guard Mike Onwenu presented false keys that indicated an inside run while Henderson zipped outside. —

Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 28 Oct. 2025 There’s an understood language of action that marries really close-up, sharp inserts, the propulsion of rapid editing, wham-bam sound effects, and visual carnage to create excitement. —

Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 16 Aug. 2025 Easy drinking 100% Merlot with 14% alcohol with flavors that include dark licorice, cinnamon and nutmeg and a wham of a finish. —

Tom Mullen, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025 Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno and company made their wham-bam-glam debut on ‘Roxy Music’ 50 years ago. —

Jill Krajewski, SPIN, 8 June 2022 Perhaps my overall disappointment stems from this pilot stiffness, but the more likely culprit is the standard brashness of American reality television, which is less cinema vérité and more wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am. —

Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Feb. 2020 But the movie, for all its retrograde politics and wham-bam machismo, can also be slick, silly fun — a giddy exercise in freewheeling nihilism, played to the hilt. —

Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2020 The movie comes at you with a quick, wham-bam style that feels like a nod to the source material, a DC Vertigo comic-book series by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle. —

San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2019

Verb

Goalscorer Asamoah Gyan took the resulting penalty, only to wham it off the top of the bar. —

SI.com, 21 June 2019

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wham

Noun

For the past 20 days, Weinberg, a farmer and doula, has been living between the thud of Hezbollah missiles and the crack of Israeli artillery.

— Lior Soroka, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2026
That polish doesn’t stop it from being seriously grating at times, though, especially when some of its jokes land with a thud.

— Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026