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Free sign upThe phrase "a wham" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a sudden impact or force, but without context, it is unclear when to use it.
Example: "The door slammed shut with a wham that echoed through the hallway."
Alternatives: "a bang" or "a thud".
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"Then we heard a wham, things flying.
But it also feels like a Wham! song".
Also, there is a plan for a Wham! tribute band to play during the "festivities".
By Nick Paumgarten In like a lion, out like a — wham!
A fan of Marvin Gaye and John Lydon, he had his musical epiphany at, of all places, a Wham! concert.
Watson's big dilemma – whether to quit his life with Holmes for marriage to lovely Mary (Kelly Reilly, underused) has, at heart, all the depth of a Wham! song.
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Trash Humpers was more of a wham-bam production.
She leans over his shoulder as he dives into a wham-bam frenzy of changing word tenses, deleting entire lines and replacing words with synonyms.
Or as Brett Gorvy, Mr. Meyer's counterpart at Christie's, explains, "It's got to be something with high impact, a wham-bang painting with everything in front of you".
– belatedly resolved, the stage is set for tonight's mid-season finale, traditionally a good time to put annoying side characters and go-nowhere subplots through the cleansing fire of a wham-bam, large-scale action sequence.
Despite a recognisable cast (Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, James Purefoy) and a wham-bam, Bourne-lite feel, Momentum made just £46 over the weekend from its 10-screen UK release.
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