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
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.
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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.
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Tom Mullen,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno and company made their wham-bam-glam debut on ‘Roxy Music’ 50 years ago.
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Jill Krajewski,
SPIN,
8 June 2022
Chabon’s magnum opus is a gloriously fun, wham-pow novel of heroes, friendship, magic, the Golden Age of Comics, and sure, okay, Hitler.
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Emily Temple,
Literary Hub,
9 Apr. 2020
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.
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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.
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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.
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San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Aug. 2019
SI.com,
21 June 2019
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
Chabon’s magnum opus is a gloriously fun, wham-pow novel of heroes, friendship, magic, the Golden Age of Comics, and sure, okay, Hitler.
—
Emily Temple,
Literary Hub,
9 Apr. 2020
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.
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SI.com,
21 June 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wham
Noun
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Beyond that, though, the Americans cannot afford to start with a thud, not with so many untrained eyes finally paying attention.
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Non-sterling objects produce a dull thud.
Verb
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Kara and Ruthye figure out the Brigands are trafficking young women for dastardly purposes, giving them yet another reason to smack some dudes around.
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Schwarber was able to work a walk, and then Derek Hill, another pinch hitter, came up and smacked a home run that gave Philadelphia the lead in a win over the Nationals.
Noun
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Emotionally, militarily, even symbolically, this is a devastating blow to the Black Queen and her cause.
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When Lucerys refuses, Aemond chases Lucerys on his dragon, seemingly meaning to injure him rather than kill him, but his dragon, Vhagar, delivers a fatal blow to Rhaenyra’s son.
Verb
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Lightning hits the United States approximately 25 million times annually.
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The Iraq goalkeeper didn't make a play on it, as the ball hit the post and bounced away.
Noun
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Not long after, Jamison’s parents reported hearing a loud thump, as though someone had fallen, according to prosecutors.
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While playing Pragmata, the thump of approaching robots had solid directionality, and the weapon blasts had a good amount of low-end force.
Verb
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Yet interpreting those rules can be almost as challenging as trying to whack the ball toward the flagstick.
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Hastings whacked a triple down the right-field line to bring in two runs and give the Diamonds a 3-2 lead.
Noun
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Deidre Hall delivered her most shocking slap yet on live TV on June 19.
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Only a few minutes earlier, Abulaila endured an inadvertent slap to his throat by Arnautovic on a pass into the box.
Verb
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The contest was like sending in half a dozen small boys to box with Jack Dempsey – the outcome was all settled before the battle began.
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Instead, the results got boxed up and stored in a Berkeley closet until 2016.
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