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gam
1[ gam ]
noun
, Slang.
- a person's leg, especially an attractive female leg.
gam
2[ gam ]
noun
- a herd or school of whales.
- Eastern New England, Nautical. a social meeting, visit, or the like, as between whaling vessels at sea.
verb (used without object)
, gammed, gam·ming.
- (of whales) to assemble into a herd or school.
- Nautical. (of the officers and crews of two whaling vessels) to visit or converse with one another for social purposes.
- Eastern New England. to participate in a gam or social visit.
gam
1/ ɡæm /
noun
- a school of whales
- nautical an informal visit between crew members of whalers
- a flock of large sea birds
verb
- intr (of whales) to form a school
- nautical (of members of the crews of whalers) to visit (each other) informally
- tr to visit or exchange visits with
gam
2/ ɡæm /
noun
- slang.a leg, esp a woman's shapely leg
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gam1
C19: perhaps dialect variant of game 1
Origin of gam2
C18: probably from Old Northern French gambe or Lingua Franca gambe; see jamb
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Example Sentences
Esther Choi of Mokbar said she has made Korean potato pancakes called gam ja jun, and Charles Rodriguez of PRINT.
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Agamogenesis, a-gam-o-jen′e-sis, n. reproduction without sex, found among lower animals and in plants.
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Jee Gam, whom many of our readers will remember in connection with his visit East four years ago, is the Secretary.
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Bore flaute pertinacis, fœdamque tempestatem, quam excicre gam ceperat, glomerante.
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Jee Gam explained to him that he could do that as a Christian, without worshiping his father.
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Rev. Jee Gam, with his large family, has several rooms as a sort of parsonage.
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