Definitions

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  • interjection An exclamatory indication of excitement or victory, for example when having completed a difficult task, or won something.

Etymologies

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Not known. May have originated from comic strips.

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Examples

  • Drill out a larger hole, depending on the size of the screw (1/8 inch, 3/16 inch, 1/4 inch, etc.) and insert a hardwood dowel with a drop of glue, cutting off the dowel flush with the surface, and, bammo, you can drill the hole anywhere!

    Hints From Heloise 2010

  • If I were in Norway or Finland, I'd be nervous, the Swedish army could coast in silently in the night and lead a successful invasion, then bammo..five years later, everyone's eating loganberries on sleek affordable modular furniture watching high quality porn.

    Smoked Salmon: Lock Your Bike, Don't Lox It BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • One need only stare at it and whammo bammo, one knows that he or she is looking at something totally lacking in social decency?

    Softly, Softly on Software Patents glyn moody 2007

  • That if we had gone in there with legitimate "shock and awe" from the outset and leveled whatever is necessary, bammo!

    Conservative America Garry 2006

  • That if we had gone in there with legitimate "shock and awe" from the outset and leveled whatever is necessary, bammo!

    Archive 2006-10-01 Garry 2006

  • Then I got the name of the group and the song, and I did another search on that and bammo, there it was!

    Perhaps I shoult start the "Panty" awards ... Lisa B. 2006

  • I am not the target audience for "The Back-up Plan's" money shots, such as shirtless Stan looking all Playgirl Farmer of the Month atop his tractor, and bammo!

    chicagotribune.com - 2010

  • I am not the target audience for "The Back-up Plan's" money shots, such as shirtless Stan looking all Playgirl Farmer of the Month atop his tractor, and bammo!

    chicagotribune.com - 2010

  • I am not the target audience for "The Back-up Plan's" money shots, such as shirtless Stan looking all Playgirl Farmer of the Month atop his tractor, and bammo!

    chicagotribune.com - 2010

  • I am not the target audience for "The Back-up Plan's" money shots, such as shirtless Stan looking all Playgirl Farmer of the Month atop his tractor, and bammo!

    chicagotribune.com - 2010

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