Usually means: Drumming technique, single grace note.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word flam:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. flam: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. flam: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flam, flam: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flam: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Flam, flam: Wordnik
  6. flam: Wiktionary
  7. flam: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. flam: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Flam, flam: Dictionary.com
  10. Flam (disambiguation), Flam (drum rudiment), Flam (surname), Flam, The Flam: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Flam: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. flam: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Flam: Rhymezone
  14. Flam: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. flam: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. Flam: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. flam: Free Dictionary
  18. flam: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. flam-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flam: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. FLAM: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. flam: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. flam, flam, flam: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. flam: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (flam)

noun:  A freak or whim; an idle fancy.
noun:  (archaic) A falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext
verb:  (obsolete) To deceive with a falsehood.
noun:  (drumming) Two taps (a grace note followed by a full-volume tap) played very close together in order to sound like one slightly longer note.
verb:  (drumming, transitive, intransitive) To play (notes as) a flam.

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