Glam
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɡlæm/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Glam is a noun meaning Glamour; glamorousness.
Meaning
Glamour; glamorousness.
More Meanings
- (music, fashion) Ellipsis of glam rock, the fashion and culture associated with this genre.
- To make glamorous or more glamorous.
- (slang) Glamorous.
Example Sentences
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.!
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.
Word Forms
- glammer
- glammest
- glams
- glamming
- glammed
Synonyms for glam
Depending on context, synonyms include glitter.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include glamour, glamoury, glitter, glossy, glim, gloss.
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