Pam
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /pæm/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pam is a noun meaning The jack of clubs in loo played with hands of 5 cards.
Meaning
The jack of clubs in loo played with hands of 5 cards.
More Meanings
- (uncountable) A card game, similar to napoleon, in which the jack of clubs is the highest trump.
- (US) Cooking spray.
- (dated, photography) A panorama.
- (dated, photography) To pan a camera in order to show a panorama.
- (historical, dated) Alternative form of palmo (“traditional Spanish and Portuguese units of measure”).
Example Sentences
The institution is "pammed" from a nearby hill-top, followed by close-ups of the various buildings.
The tripod used on a pam prevents any of that disturbing vertical shake which is so obvious in hand-held slow pams.
At one time he ordered a panorama effect, in which the cameras “pammed,” swept from one side to the other, giving a succession of faces at close range.
The camera man, in turn, when he had filmed the accident, pammed — the outrageous word "pam" means panorama — immediately to the sheriff in the hope that he would shoot.
Word Forms
- pams
- pamming
- pammed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include maa, pop, pow, linux, cap, map.
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