wham

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

Onomatopoeic, representing the sound of an object being slammed against something.

I was piling it up in the middle of the floor when--wham--something gave way and I took a header into nowhere!" — On the Trail of the Space Pirates, Carey Rockwell
It was pure reflex action by a man who had been whammed over the head by a hundred-and-fifty-pound drum of yielding--in fact bursting--material. — The Ambulance Made Two Trips, Murray Leinster
This truth fand honest Tam O'Shanter, As he frae Ayr ae[158] night did canter, (Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses, For honest men and bonnie lasses.) — From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

whack, whop, wallop

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