See wham on Wiktionary
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"text": "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.",
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"text": "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!",
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"ref": "2008 August, Douglas Coupland, “40 on the Outside, 30 on the Inside: My Theory of How Men Really Age”, in Stephen Perrine, editor, Best Life, volume V, number 6, Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 77, column 1:",
"text": "In myself I've come to notice that aging comes in spurts. […] I'll look the exact same way for a decade, and then—wham!—God hits the progeria switch and for two years the downhill plunge begins anew. And then it stops again.",
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"ref": "1966 January, Wesley S. Griswold, “Can You Invent a Million-dollar Fad?”, in Ernest V. Heyn, editor, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 188, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Popular Science Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 80, column 2:",
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"text": "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!",
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"ref": "1952 September 22, “Editorial: Since Stevenson [i.e., Adlai Stevenson II] Prefers ‘Compromise’, Foreign Policy is Squarely in the Campaign”, in Henry R[obinson] Luce, editor, Life, volume 33, number 12, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30, column 1:",
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"ref": "2008 August, Douglas Coupland, “40 on the Outside, 30 on the Inside: My Theory of How Men Really Age”, in Stephen Perrine, editor, Best Life, volume V, number 6, Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 77, column 1:",
"text": "In myself I've come to notice that aging comes in spurts. […] I'll look the exact same way for a decade, and then—wham!—God hits the progeria switch and for two years the downhill plunge begins anew. And then it stops again.",
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"text": "Though you may never have heard of Wham-O before, you doubtless are already acquainted with Super Ball, their latest sensation. It's about the size of a handball, and has such extraordinary bounce that it makes every other ball seem tired. […] Kids from seven to 70 can be seen dribbling it or whamming it over the rooftops almost anywhere you go these days.",
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