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Wham


Definition:

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  • (1) Then wham, the sudden terrors again, about nothing in particular.
  • (2) I remember her sunbathing on the college roof, listening to Wham!, reading difficult philosophy and explaining it to us really simply.” But, she recalled, Kendall had a real passion for social justice and Neil Kinnock’s 1992 general election defeat devastated her.
  • (3) "It was like somebody went wham and slapped my whole body from front and back," he said.
  • (4) Photograph: BBC George Michael on the cover of Wham!’s Last Christmas ... George Michael singing Last Christmas Cabin Pressure Benedict Cumberbatch , likely to be an Oscar nominee in January, can do anything he wants on screen or stage at the moment, so it’s impressive and touching that he has been able to find time to join Roger Allam and Stephanie Cole for the final flight – in two parts, with a day’s stopover in between – of John Finnemore’s comedy about a single-plane charter airline.
  • (5) George Michael , 51, grew up in London and in the early 1980s formed the band Wham!
  • (6) Scots wha hae wi’ Wallace bled, Scots wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome tae your gory bed, Or tae victorie.
  • (7) Part of the problem was that she and Watt stood for a political sensibility that had made sense in the early post-punk 80s, but was rapidly becoming anachronistic as the decade evolved away from the Jam towards Wham!
  • (8) And suddenly it was, wham, and I was right back in junior high."
  • (9) The mutant, called WHAM (Wisconsin hypo-alpha mutant), has a 70-90% reduction in plasma HDL cholesterol and apolipoprotein A-I (apo A-I) concentrations.
  • (10) Hemsworth has since turned out to be a no-brainer for studios, a killer combo of pecs and presence, although his incredibly charismatic turn as James Hunt in Rush proves that there's a whole lot more to him than wham-bam blockbusters.
  • (11) Eric Stoltz shot it for six weeks and then they hired me, wham bam, I was in the parking lot where they filmed the scene with the DeLorean and it was really last minute and it was cold and if it hadn't been I wouldn't have worn that vest.
  • (12) Control chickens maintained on a high-cholesterol diet for 28 weeks experienced a 2.4-fold rise in the plasma very low density lipoprotein cholesterol concentration, while the same diet induced a 3.7-fold rise in the low density lipoprotein cholesterol concentration in WHAM chickens.
  • (13) The McDonald’s in the main square blares out Wham’s Last Christmas, the dress code is relaxed.
  • (14) When, in Jerusalem, slaughterman Davey Dean boasts of the 200 cows he kills in a morning – "Wham!
  • (15) At the end of the 3-year period, the area and thickness of the spontaneous aortic lesions in control and WHAM chickens were not significantly different.
  • (16) About 25% of them were queuing up for help and feeling better, when wham!
  • (17) It is where stars of the 1980s, such as members of Wham!, Duran Duran and Culture Club, recorded the original track.
  • (18) To assess the effect of HDL deficiency on spontaneous atherosclerosis, a separate group of control and WHAM chickens was maintained on a low-fat, cholesterol-free diet for 3 years.
  • (19) The whole wham bam thank you ma’am of the porn industry doesn’t cater for the women and men who want more than lips, tits and moaning,” 27-year-old Olivia Hare told me.
  • (20) "You've just got to compare Morrissey's lyrics with Wham!

What


Definition:

  • (pron., a., & adv.) As an interrogative pronoun, used in asking questions regarding either persons or things; as, what is this? what did you say? what poem is this? what child is lost?
  • (pron., a., & adv.) As an exclamatory word: -- (a) Used absolutely or independently; -- often with a question following.
  • (pron., a., & adv.) Used adjectively, meaning how remarkable, or how great; as, what folly! what eloquence! what courage!
  • (pron., a., & adv.) Sometimes prefixed to adjectives in an adverbial sense, as nearly equivalent to how; as, what happy boys!
  • (pron., a., & adv.) As a relative pronoun
  • (pron., a., & adv.) Used substantively with the antecedent suppressed, equivalent to that which, or those [persons] who, or those [things] which; -- called a compound relative.
  • (pron., a., & adv.) Used adjectively, equivalent to the . . . which; the sort or kind of . . . which; rarely, the . . . on, or at, which.
  • (pron., a., & adv.) Used adverbially in a sense corresponding to the adjectival use; as, he picked what good fruit he saw.
  • (pron., a., & adv.) Whatever; whatsoever; what thing soever; -- used indefinitely.
  • (pron., a., & adv.) Used adverbially, in part; partly; somewhat; -- with a following preposition, especially, with, and commonly with repetition.
  • (n.) Something; thing; stuff.
  • (interrog. adv.) Why? For what purpose? On what account?

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