English Use
- Sham, derogatory, for rugs and market items from Syria touted or misrepresented as Persian
- Sham 69, English punk band
- Sam the Sham, stage name of U.S. rock singer Domingo “Sam” Samudio
- Sham, a name for the cover of a pillow
- Sham-operated group, a control group in laboratory experiments involving surgical procedures
- Sham election, another name for a Show election
- Sham marriage, a marriage entered into with intent to deceive
- Sham surgery, surgery omitting the therapeutic component
- Sham peer review, a fraudulent or malicious form of peer review
- Sham, a beer glass that is twice as tall as it is wide, normally wider at the top, and having a half-inch-thick glass base
- Sham (1921 film), a lost 1921 silent film based on a Broadway play starring Ethel Clayton
Sham Used as slang referred to friend, Lurgan
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