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"We heard four shots when we was in the parking lot -- bam, bam, bam, bam," eyewitness Kenneth Youmans told CBS News correspondent Jeff Glor.

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  1. To bam-boozle; cheat; hoax; wheedle. [Slang.] This is some conspiracy, I suppose, to bam, to chouse me out of my money. Foote.
  2. To practise hoaxing or imposition. [Slang.]
  3. A cheat; a hoax; an imposition. [Slang.] It was all a bam, madam, a scene we thought proper to act. A. Murphy. To relieve the tedium he kept plying them with all manner of bams. J. Wilson.

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  • The structure that rose up on stilts some distance behind it was as big as a bam, an unremarkable clapboard building with peeling white paint and a sign hanging above the gallery that spelled out mosquito mouton's in two-foot-high red letters. —  TAMI HOAG
  • He'd rowed at Groton where slam-bam was the best you could hope for.
  • "We heard four shots when we was in the parking lot -- bam, bam, bam, bam," eyewitness Kenneth Youmans told CBS News correspondent Jeff Glor. —  KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO - Top Story
  • I wish more stand-up comedy clips were like this; bam, bam, bam, all funny, quick, to the point, and there you go. —  Web TV Hub
  • If someone calls you during your run, bam -- you've exited your heart-rate app, and now your training record for the day is flawed. —  Fast Company
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  1. A slang word, formerly also bamb, either an abbreviation, or the source of the first syllable, of bamboozle, q. v.
  2. from bam, v.
 

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