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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of wham.

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Examples

  • She dropped the book flat from waist-high and it whammed to the stage floor at her feet.

    The Overton Window Glenn Beck 2010

  • She dropped the book flat from waist-high and it whammed to the stage floor at her feet.

    The Overton Window Glenn Beck 2010

  • She dropped the book flat from waist-high and it whammed to the stage floor at her feet.

    The Overton Window Glenn Beck 2010

  • She dropped the book flat from waist-high and it whammed to the stage floor at her feet.

    The Overton Window Glenn Beck 2010

  • She dropped the book flat from waist-high and it whammed to the stage floor at her feet.

    The Overton Window Glenn Beck 2010

  • By the time he was 21, George had whammed his way to wealth beyond the crudest fantasies of a Cypriot restaurant-owner.

    Johann Hari: George Michael: An Exclusive Interview 2009

  • I have to stop now ... before I get whammed by the pure and the righteous ...

    You want more? We got more. Roger Sutton 2006

  • Then in 1934 Enrico Fermi whammed some of them into uranium and nobody figured out what that did until 1938, when, on the run from the Nazis, Lise Meitner convinced her nephew Otto Robert Frisch that the damn uranium was splitting into lighter elements, and releasing one godawful amount of energy in the process.

    The Neutron Dance James Killus 2007

  • Then in 1934 Enrico Fermi whammed some of them into uranium and nobody figured out what that did until 1938, when, on the run from the Nazis, Lise Meitner convinced her nephew Otto Robert Frisch that the damn uranium was splitting into lighter elements, and releasing one godawful amount of energy in the process.

    Archive 2007-06-01 James Killus 2007

  • Blaze turned him over and whammed him on the back.

    Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007

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