glam

Etymology

Clipping of glamour.

noun

1. Glamour.
2. (music, fashion) 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. 2016-10-07, Sukhdev Sandhu, “Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy by Simon Reynolds”, in The Guardian

adj

1. Glamorous.

verb

1. To make glamorous or more glamorous.
   He would become absorbed in what he was doing and forget that they were going out to a reception at the City Hall or somewhere. Stella would appear at the study door all glammed up in her best coat and he would look up from his reading like a startled animal caught drinking at a watering hole. 2017, Bernard MacLaverty, “Chapter 10”, in Midwinter Break, page 204