glam

See also: GLAM, Glam, and głam

English

Etymology

Clipping of glamour.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlæm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æm

Noun

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

glam (comparative glammer, superlative glammest)

1. (slang) Glamorous.

Verb

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

Usually used in the phrasal verb glam up.

Derived terms

• glam band
• glam lesbian
• glam-ma
• glam metal
• glam punk
• glam rock
• neo-glam

 

See also

• glitz

Anagrams

• mGal

Polish

Pronunciation

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

Verb

glam

1. second-person singular imperative of glamać

Spanish

Noun

glam m (plural glams)

1. glam

Swedish

Noun

glam n

1. loud expressions of joy, loud merriment

Declension

Declension of glam

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	glam	glams
	definite	glammet	glammets
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Related terms

• glamma

References

• glam in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• glam in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)