WHAM (whammed, whamming)

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Irregular inflected forms: whammed    , whamming   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does wham mean? 

• WHAM (verb)
  The verb WHAM has 1 sense:

1. hit hard

  Familiarity information: WHAM used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHAM (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hit hard

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

wallop; whack; wham; whop

Context example:

The teacher whacked the boy

Hypernyms (to "wham" is one way to...):

hit (deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The fighter managed to wham his opponent