Meanings
blam1
present singular third person blams · participle present blamming · participle past blammed · past blammed
present singular third person blams · participle present blamming · participle past blammed · past blammed
- transitiveTo unpublish or remove (a user-submitted movie/game) for having a rating below two stars.
My game got blammed.
- transitiveTo rate a (user-submitted movie/game) below two stars.
That was a test animation, so I blammed it.
blam2
- InternetinformaluncountableSpam posted to a blog.
To counter this effect, spammers attempt to create links to their sites on other people's pages. The most common targets for this kind of spam are weblogs, the spamming then being known as blog spam, or "blam" for short.
2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, Internet Marketing, SEO & Advertising1 more example
[…] we refer to unsolicited and unwanted advertising as spam. The phenomenon is widespread, and has led people to coin terms for it in other information product or service contexts, such as splog or blam (unsolicited advertisements in blog comments), spim (instant messaging), […]
2012, Martin Peitz, Joel Waldfogel, The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy
BLAM3
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
blam · noun
- Proto-Indo-European*weyh₁-?
- Proto-Indo-European*wiHrós
- Proto-Germanic*weraz
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂életi
- Proto-Germanic*alaną
- Proto-Germanic*aldiz
- Proto-Germanic*weraldiz
- Proto-West Germanic*weraldi
- Old Englishweorold
- Middle Englishworld
- Englishworld
- Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
- Proto-Indo-European*dwi-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁weydʰh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁weydʰh₁ós
- Proto-Germanic*wīdaz
- Old Englishwīd
- Englishwide
- Englishworldwide
- Proto-Indo-European*webʰ-
- Proto-Germanic*webaną
- Proto-Germanic*wabją
- Old Englishwebb
- Middle Englishweb
- Englishweb
- EnglishWorld Wide Webellip.
- EnglishWeb
- Proto-Indo-European*legʰ-
- Proto-Indo-European*légʰyeti
- Proto-Germanic*ligjaną
- Old Norseliggjader.?
- Middle Englishlogge
- Englishlog
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂ǵosder.?
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂g-der.?
- Proto-Germanic*bōks
- Proto-West Germanic*bōk
- Old Englishbōc
- Middle Englishbok
- Englishbook
- Englishlogbook
- Englishlog
- Englishweblog
- Englishblog
- Englishspam
- Englishblam
Blend of blog + spam.
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Cite this entry
blam. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blam
“blam.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blam. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “blam,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blam.
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