Wham

/wæm/ · noun

Meaning

A forceful blow..

Definitions by Sense

1. A forceful blow.
2. The sound of such a blow; a thud.
3. An attempt.
4. A great success.
5. Used to indicate the sound of a forceful blow, an explosion, etc.
6. Used to indicate something dramatic, sudden, and unanticipated has occurred.
7. To smash or strike (someone or something) with great force or impact; to slam, to whack.
8. To propel (something) with great force by kicking, striking, throwing, etc.

Example Sentences

Roger was given a violent wham by his boxing opponent.

Might be a good idea to have a wham at it, anyway. Stop it getting away. Knock it out so that we can have a proper look at it.

We heard a wham as the hammer struck the wall.

Wham! The truck hit the wall.

"Come here, kid, I got something for you." Then wham and he lit on his hands and knees beside the track. Nick rubbed his eye. There was a big bump coming up.

The second matador slipped, and the bull caught him through the belly and he hung onto the horn with one hand and held the other right against the place, and the bull rammed him wham against the barrier and the horn came out, and he lay in the sand, and then got up like crazy drunk and tried to slug the men carrying him away and yelled for his sword, but he fainted.

I was off duty, minding my own business, walking across the Avenue of the Americas at Forty-fifth Street on my way to Charlie Rothstein's when I heard a gun go off. Wham! it roared, not more than twenty feet from me, and then, in quick succession, wham—wham!

Our relationship was going smoothly and then wham! Out of nowhere he told me he was leaving me for another woman.

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• whams
• whamming
• whammed

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