Meaning of glam | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Glamour; glamorousness.
   uncountable
2. Acronym of galleries, libraries, archives and museums.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
3. University of Glamorgan, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
4. Ellipsis of glam rock, the fashion and culture associated with this genre.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable
5. Acronym of Generic Legal Advice Memorandum, issued by the IRS to provide advice to its field agents.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.!”

“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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