glam

noun, adj, verb — 4 senses

glam

noun

/ɡlæm/

Etymology Clipping of glamour.

1

Glamour; glamorousness.

Who wouldn’t be a glamor girl, a certain-to-enamor girl? What joie de vivre in her life is given her to cram, The dinkum sex-appealing girl, the subtle-charm-revealing girl, ’Mong men the havoc-dealing girl—in short, the girl with glam.!1939 July 19, The Bulletin, Sydney, page 14, column 1:

2

Entertainment, Fashion, Lifestyle, Music Abbreviation, Ellipsis Ellipsis of glam rock, the fashion and culture associated with this genre.

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.2016 October 7, Sukhdev Sandhu, “Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy by Simon Reynolds”, in The Guardian:

glam

adj

Etymology Clipping of glamour.

1

Slang Glamorous.

glam

verb

Etymology Clipping of glamour.

1

To make glamorous or more glamorous.

Derived terms: glam band, Glambert, glamcore, glamfest, glam lesbian, glam-ma, glam metal, glammy, glampire, glam punk, glam rock, neo-glam
Related terms: glitz

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