bamexclamation
/bæm//bæm/informalused to suggest the sound of a sudden hit:
I braced for impact. We hit the water, bam!
used to show that something happened very suddenly or quickly:
I wrote the order and bam, I sent it off.
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- He grabbed them, and I took a billy club, and I went bam! I hit him on the back of the head.
- It started raining a little bit and then bam! The storm hit.
- You leave it here and, bam, it's gone.
- So, bam, bam, we lost 600 jobs.
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Linguistics: sounds used as interjections
- achoo
- blah
- boohoo
- cor
- duh
- er
- eww
- hah
- oops
- ow
- phooey
- shush
- tsk
- tut
- uh
- uh-oh
- uh-uh
- whoops
- yada yada yada
- zzz
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Linguistics: interjections