wham
Loud collision noise
Wham represents a sudden, forceful impact—the sound of a collision or blow landing hard: The door slammed shut with a wham.
As a verb, to wham is to strike with force: He whammed his fist on the table.
The word often appears doubled for emphasis: Wham, bam, thank you ma'am suggests something done hastily, especially sex.
Sudden loud noise
- crashSudden violent impact
- slamForceful impact or closure
- smackStrike with open hand
- thwackSharp striking sound
wallop · thump · punch · strike · blow · collision · jolt · bash
Sudden impact exclamation
- bamLoud impact sound
- zapDestroy suddenly with energy
- kapowImpact sound effect
- kaboomOnomatopoeia for detonation
splat · thwack · sound effect · action · speech bubble · comic book · onomatopoeia · superhero
Sudden loud noise
- Last ChristmasEighties holiday heartbreak ballad
- Careless WhisperUnthinking quiet utterance
- 1980sFourth-to-last twentieth-century decade
- BritishOf the United Kingdom
synthpop · MTV · chart-toppers · hit singles · music videos · dance routines · youthful · iconic
bang
Sudden loud noise
thwack · wallop · thump · punch · strike · blow · collision · jolt · bash · clout
pow
Sudden impact exclamation
kaboom · splat · thwack · sound effect · action · speech bubble · comic book · onomatopoeia · superhero · punch
bang
Sudden loud noise
clap · blast · thunder · slam · thud · crunch · kaboom · pow · bam · explosive
George Michael
- Last ChristmasEighties holiday heartbreak ballad
- Careless WhisperUnthinking quiet utterance
- 1980sFourth-to-last twentieth-century decade
British · synthpop · MTV · chart-toppers · hit singles · music videos · dance routines · youthful · iconic · farewell concert
- cartoon visualsaction lines, speech bubble, thought bubble, pow, bam
- comic book soundspow, bam, zap, kapow, thwack
- onomatopoeiabang, bam, boom, buzz, clang
- impact soundsbam, bang, bash, bonk, boom
- comicscomic books, comic book, comic strip, comic art, comic panel
- exclamationsoh, yes, no, wow, hey
- double whammyTwo simultaneous misfortunes
- triple whammyThree simultaneous setbacks
- double whammiesConsecutive negative impacts
- wham bamEmphatic impact sounds
- whammy barLever altering string tension
- wham bam thank you ma'am