glam
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glam (uncountable)
- Glamour.
- (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.
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glam (comparative glammer, superlative glammest)
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glam (third-person singular simple present glams, present participle glamming, simple past and past participle glammed)
- 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.
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Usually used in the phrasal verb glam up.
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glam
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glam m (plural glams)
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glam n
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| Declension of glam | ||||
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| Nominative | glam | glammet | — | — |
| Genitive | glams | glammets | — | — |