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double whammy

when 2 bad things happen. usually its something bad, then something worse to make things even more f'd up.
bob -- DUDE I just got fired!! and I think I just got shot in the foot!

tim -- double whammy!
by ttttttttravis February 8, 2007
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Hand-whammy

A hand-job. Particularly one rendered in appreciation for a good deed by the recipient.
Bro, I'll help you move your shit outta your gf's apartment again, but you owe me like a godzillion goddamned hand-whammy (s)
by poopshovelthealmighty December 21, 2016
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wammer

Wammer is a term used for a highschool and\or college party with more then 75 people and lots and lots of beer,alchol,girls,drugs. Not a sausage party.
I hear theres a wammer up at the mountain tonight, I doubt the cops will come.
by extulas June 18, 2004
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Whammy Bar

A tremolo bar. You screw it into your guitar and when you're playing you push and pull it to stretch or loosen the strings, heightening or lowering the pitch.
by Rohan January 22, 2004
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Wammer

A wet and messy (WAM) fetishist. Also known as a splosher, wammers engage in messy play, which could include pies, slime, cake batter, or mud.
My boyfriend is a wammer; he wants me to pie him in the face tonight.
by PieMyFace November 17, 2018
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wamby pamby

A phrase that can be used in place of any English word when you can't think of what word you're looking for, when you don't have a particular word in mind, or in place of a bad word. Can be used as a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, or full sentence.
Noun.
Those guys are nothing but a bunch of wamby pambies.

Verb.
All you have to do is wamby pamby this thing over here.

Adjective.
That wamby pamby dog peed on my foot!

Adverb.
Bill wamby pamby threw a rock at Jim.

Full Sentence.
Wamby pamby!
by The Anonymous Goofball December 8, 2010
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whammy bar

The "whammy bar" goes by many other names as well: wham bar, wang bar, vibrato tailpiece, tremolo arm, Floyd, etc. (Although "Floyd" properly refers only to the "Locking Tremolo System" designed by Floyd Rose). The names come from manufacturers or from users.

Although some refer to this device as a "tremolo bar" or a "tremolo arm", the use of the word "tremolo" is misplaced. Tremolo refers to volume modulation. The term was originally used for instruments of the violin family. If a violinist's (or violist's or cellist's or bassist's) score is marked "tremolo", it means the player will rapidly move the bow back and forth across the string, resulting in a "trembling" sound.

"Vibrato", by contrast, is pitch modulation. Returning to the violin family: watch a violinist's left hand wiggle quickly while holding down a string. By moving her hand this way, the violinist is constantly and subtlely changing the pitch of the string. This makes the sound of the string very "wide" and "alive" -- more "vibrant."

The wham bar on the guitar changes the pitch of the gutar's strings. Therefore, it's properly referred to as a "vibrato" device, not a "tremolo" device.
You can use the whammy bar for anything from a subtle vibrato to a full on crazed dive bomb.

Is that finger vibrato, or is he using the whammy bar?
by Daniel Eickmann November 24, 2007
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