What is Bamn?
1.
By Any Means Necessary. Translation of a phrase coined by the French intellectual Jean Paul Sartre in his play Dirty Hands.
Popularized by Malcolm X in the last year of his life.
"I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary (BAMN)."
-— Jean Paul Sartre, Dirty Hands: act 5, scene 3. 1963
"We declare our right on this earth to be a man, to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary (BAMN)."
-- Malcolm X, 1965
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2.
is a person who lives for buying in the hope that bragging about her latest fangirl item would increase her friends or the people who she believes secretly envies her
"have you read about that stupid girl's latest blog entry?"
"god, that crazy bamn girl still write?"
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3.
Bamn is a word used in place of "bam" when "bam" does not relay the emotion that the user has.
"You sunk my battleship!"
"Yeah, BAMN!!"
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