glam

noun

1. (uncountable)Glamour; glamorousness.

   “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. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable)Ellipsis of glam rock, the fashion and culture associated with this genre.

   “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.”

3. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable)Acronym of galleries, libraries, archives and museums.
4. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable)Acronym of Generic Legal Advice Memorandum, issued by the IRS to provide advice to its field agents.

adj

1. (slang)Glamorous.

verb

1. To make glamorous or more glamorous.

name

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