Green’s Dictionary of Slang

pam-pam n.

[echoic; but note Twi pam, to chase away, and pam-pam, to persecute, to drive away]
(W.I.)

1. a flogging.

[WI]cited in Cassidy & LePage Dict. Jam. Eng. (1980).

2. an argument, a fuss, a noisy disorder.

[WI]cited in Cassidy & LePage Dict. Jam. Eng. (1980).