glam

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See also: GLAM, Glam, and głam

English

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Etymology

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Clipping of glamour.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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glam (uncountable)

  1. Glamour.
  2. (music, fashion) Ellipsis of glam rock.; the fashion and culture associated with this genre.
    Synonym: glitter
    • 2016 October 7, Sukhdev Sandhu, “Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy by Simon Reynolds”, in The Guardian[1]:
      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.

Adjective

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glam (comparative glammer, superlative glammest)

  1. (slang) Glamorous.

Verb

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glam (third-person singular simple present glams, present participle glamming, simple past and past participle glammed)

  1. To make glamorous or more glamorous.
    • 2017, Bernard MacLaverty, “Chapter 10”, in Midwinter Break, page 204:
      He would become absorbed in what he was doing and forget that they were going out to a reception at the City Hall or somewhere. Stella would appear at the study door all glammed up in her best coat and he would look up from his reading like a startled animal caught drinking at a watering hole.

Usage notes

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Usually used in the phrasal verb glam up.

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Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɡlam/
  • Rhymes: -am
  • Syllabification: glam

Verb

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glam

  1. second-person singular imperative of glamać

Spanish

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Noun

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glam m (plural glams)

  1. glam

Swedish

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Noun

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glam n

  1. loud expressions of joy, loud merriment

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