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braaams

braaams is the plural of braaam.

Meaning of braaam

Noun

braaam (plural braaams)

  1. A low, loud sound, originally produced by brass instruments and a prepared piano but sometimes made synthetically, included in film and trailer scores to increase audience stress.
    • Most agree that Hollywood's obsession with braaams began with a series of trailers for Christopher Nolan's 2010 film, Inception. But just who invented them is "a very, very, very touchy subject," according to Bobby Gumm, head of music for Trailer Park, the company behind such braaam-filled trailers...2015, Seth Abramovitch, “'Braaams' for Beginners: How a Horn Sound Ate Hollywood”, in Hollywood Reporter

Noun capitalized: BRAAAMs

BRAAAMs

  1. (plural) plural of BRAAAM

Questions about braaams

What is braaams the plural of?
Braaams is the plural of braaam.
What part of speech is braaams?
Braaams is a noun.

Words near braaams in the dictionary

  1. bra-burning
  2. bra-ket
  3. bra-kets
  4. BRAA
  5. braaam
  6. braaams
  7. braai
  8. braaied
  9. braaiing
  10. braaing
  11. braais

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Adapted from Wiktionary: braaams (page history and authors); BRAAAMs (page history and authors); braaam (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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