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noun

ˈ(h)wam

Definition of wham

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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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 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. — SI.com, 21 June 2019

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wham

Noun

Less than a mile from Presnell’s apartment, the girl heard a thud.

— Thomas Lake, AJC.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Obscenities, the referee’s whistle, and the thud of boots into balls—and sometimes shins—easily carry across these desolate fields.

— Vanda Mayer, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of thud

Verb

Eventually, Bird’s film — with a script co-written by Matthew Robbins — gets to the meat of the action when Venus’ extremely complicated life runs smack into Ray and his knack for sniffing out bad guys.

— Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2026
The Eagles also have been smacked with injuries and played without several key starters.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of smack

Noun

Now, in yet another blow to national self-esteem, the ex-head of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, the BND, has been arrested on charges of exploiting state secrets.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 17 Oct. 2026
The pro-Western opposition parties won big Saturday in the Czech Republic’s vote to fill one-third of the seats in Parliament’s upper house, the Senate, handing a blow to the ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of blow

Verb

Prosecutors said Wilcox was hit by gunfire, fell to the ground and fired three more gunshots at the officers.

— Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2026
The different program sales operations of Skydance hit the Côte d’Azur under their pre-existing Paramount and WB brands.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of hit

Verb

When the game resumed, families in the stands celebrated each time a child managed to whack the ball.

— Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
But every season thus far — not only including but especially this one — has concluded as a perverse, whack, and certainly damning portrait of American war games in an era of steep imperial decline.

— Andy Andersen, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of whack

Noun

The Wild, who have played all season without first-pair defenseman Brock Faber due to a skull fracture, lost forward Nico Sturm in the first period when he was hit on the side of the head by teammate Jared Spurgeon's slap shot.

— CBS News, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
But, with seconds left on the clock, Patel wanted to get in one last slap shot.

— Richie McGinniss, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of slap

Verb

The testy exchange capped a five-minute opening statement in which Williams torched national reporting for trying to box his injury into a tidy Grade 2 timeline.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
What Countries Stand To Lose Founders cannot be boxed into one company.

— Bernardo Saraiva, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026

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