What is a synonym for "glam"?

Common synonyms include: glam rock, glitter.

Glam

//ɡlæm// adj, name, noun, verb, slang

adj, name, noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Noun

1
Glamour; glamorousness. uncountable
"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.!"
2
Acronym of galleries, libraries, archives and museums. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
3
Ellipsis of glam rock, the fashion and culture associated with this genre. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable
"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."
4
Acronym of Generic Legal Advice Memorandum, issued by the IRS to provide advice to its field agents. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable

Verb

Adjective

Proper Noun

1
University of Glamorgan, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.

"The Italian glam rock band Måneskin won the Eurovision Song Contest."

Etymology 1

Clipping of glamour.

Etymology 2

Shortened form of Glamorgan taking all the letters of the first syllable and the first consonant of the second syllable.

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