flam
17th century; from flim-flam, itself perhaps from a dialectal word or Scandinavian; compare Norse, Old flim. Noun
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17th century; from flim-flam, itself perhaps from a dialectal word or Scandinavian; compare Norse, Old flim. Noun
flam
- A freak or whim; an idle fancy.
- (archaic) A falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext
- Synonyms: deception, delusion
- 1692, Robert South, "A Further Account of the Nature and Measures of Conscience", in Forty Eight Sermons and Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions (published 1697)
- all Pretences, or Pleas of Conscience, to the contrary, are nothing but Cant and Cheat, Flam and Delusion.
- a perpetual abuse and flam upon posterity
flam (flams, present participle flamming; past and past participle flammed)
- (obsolete) To deceive with a falsehood.
- God is not to be flammed off with lies.
flam (plural flams)
- (drumming) Two taps (a grace note followed by a full-volume tap) played very close together in order to sound like one slightly longer note.
flam (flams, present participle flamming; past and past participle flammed)
- (drumming, ambitransitive) To play (notes as) a flam.
- 1923, Edward B. Straight, The Straight System of Modern Drumming: The "Natural Way" to Play Drums, page 10:
- We will commence to flam the notes now, as most of them are flammed when you play a March.
- 1975, George Shipway, Free Lance, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P (ISBN 9780151334766):
- Drums ruffled and flammed.
- 1923, Edward B. Straight, The Straight System of Modern Drumming: The "Natural Way" to Play Drums, page 10:
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