See blam on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "By onomatopoeia.",
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"text": "That the last zombie? Here. Let me get that for ya. *BLAM!*",
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},
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"_dis1": "0 0 0",
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},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"english": "shoot up",
"word": "blam up"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "kablam"
}
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"third-person"
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},
{
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},
{
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{
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"To fire a gun."
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"(intransitive) To fire a gun."
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"To shoot; to kill by gunshot."
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[
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"(transitive) To shoot; to kill by gunshot."
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},
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{
"ref": "2022, “REALIFE”, LF70 (lyrics), 1:29:",
"text": "Spin that whip, let me see that dog, Imma blam that goal like Messi, shit gets messy – and I still get him down with my lefty",
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}
],
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"To shoot, to propel by means of sudden impact."
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"(transitive) To shoot, to propel by means of sudden impact."
],
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{
"ref": "2012, Martin Peitz, Joel Waldfogel, The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy:",
"text": "[…] we refer to unsolicited and unwanted advertising as spam. The phenomenon is widespread, and has led people to coin terms for it in other information product or service contexts, such as splog or blam (unsolicited advertisements in blog comments), spim (instant messaging), […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, Internet Marketing, SEO & Advertising:",
"text": "To counter this effect, spammers attempt to create links to their sites on other people's pages. The most common targets for this kind of spam are weblogs, the spamming then being known as blog spam, or \"blam\" for short.",
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}
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{
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"(rare) Alternative form of blame"
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{
"form": "blȃm",
"tags": [
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},
{
"form": "бла̑м",
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{
"word": "kablam"
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"third-person"
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"To fire a gun."
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[
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"(intransitive) To fire a gun."
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"To shoot; to kill by gunshot."
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[
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[
"kill",
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[
"gunshot",
"gunshot"
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"(transitive) To shoot; to kill by gunshot."
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{
"ref": "2022, “REALIFE”, LF70 (lyrics), 1:29:",
"text": "Spin that whip, let me see that dog, Imma blam that goal like Messi, shit gets messy – and I still get him down with my lefty",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"To shoot, to propel by means of sudden impact."
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[
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"shoot"
],
[
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"(transitive) To shoot, to propel by means of sudden impact."
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"transitive"
]
}
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"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈblam]",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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"2": "blog",
"3": "spam"
},
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}
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{
"ref": "2012, Martin Peitz, Joel Waldfogel, The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy:",
"text": "[…] we refer to unsolicited and unwanted advertising as spam. The phenomenon is widespread, and has led people to coin terms for it in other information product or service contexts, such as splog or blam (unsolicited advertisements in blog comments), spim (instant messaging), […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, Internet Marketing, SEO & Advertising:",
"text": "To counter this effect, spammers attempt to create links to their sites on other people's pages. The most common targets for this kind of spam are weblogs, the spamming then being known as blog spam, or \"blam\" for short.",
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}
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"Spam posted to a blog."
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],
[
"blog",
"blog"
]
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"(Internet, informal) Spam posted to a blog."
],
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"Internet",
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"uncountable"
]
}
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"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
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"word": "blame"
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"(rare) Alternative form of blame"
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"3": "blâme"
},
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"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
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"table-tags"
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"singular"
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},
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"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "niște blamuri",
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"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
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"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"singular"
]
},
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"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"dative",
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
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"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
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"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
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"dative",
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
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"singular",
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]
},
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"vocative"
]
}
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},
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}
],
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"nsi": "blam",
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"vs": "blamule",
"vs2": ""
},
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}
],
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"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
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"Pages with entries",
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"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian neuter nouns",
"Romanian nouns",
"Romanian nouns with red links in their headword lines",
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"Romanian terms derived from French"
],
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],
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[
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],
[
"condemnation",
"condemnation"
]
],
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]
}
],
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}
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"form": "blȃm",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"form": "бла̑м",
"tags": [
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]
}
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"english": "(an instance of) embarrassment",
"word": "blamáža"
},
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"english": "to embarrass",
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"categories": [
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"Pages with entries",
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"Serbo-Croatian back-formations",
"Serbo-Croatian colloquialisms",
"Serbo-Croatian entries with incorrect language header",
"Serbo-Croatian lemmas",
"Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns",
"Serbo-Croatian nouns"
],
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"(feeling of) embarrassment"
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[
"feeling",
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[
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"embarrassment"
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],
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"Serbia",
"colloquial"
]
}
],
"word": "blam"
}
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