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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024-gam-, root. - -gam- comes from Greek, where it has the meaning "marriage.'' This meaning is found in such words as: bigamist, bigamy, gamete, polygamy.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024gam1 (gam),USA pronunciation n. [Slang.]- Sex and Gendera person's leg, esp. an attractive female leg.
- Italian gamba leg; see jamb1
- Polari
- probably 1775–85
- a herd or school of whales.
- Dialect Terms, Naval Terms[Eastern New Eng., Naut.]a social meeting, visit, or the like, as between whaling vessels at sea.
v.i. - (of whales) to assemble into a herd or school.
- Nautical, Naval Terms(of the officers and crews of two whaling vessels) to visit or converse with one another for social purposes.
- Dialect Terms[Eastern New Eng.]to participate in a gam or social visit.
- perh. dialect, dialectal variant of game1 1840–50, American.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: gam /ɡæm/ n - slang a leg, esp a woman's shapely leg
Etymology: 18th Century: probably from Old Northern French gambe or Lingua Franca gambe; see jamb |