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gams


noun Slang.

  1. a person’s leg, especially an attractive female leg.

noun

  1. a herd or school of whales.
  2. Eastern New England, Nautical. a social meeting, visit, or the like, as between whaling vessels at sea.

verb (used without object), gammed, gam·ming.

  1. (of whales) to assemble into a herd or school.
  2. Nautical. (of the officers and crews of two whaling vessels) to visit or converse with one another for social purposes.
  3. Eastern New England. to participate in a gam or social visit.

noun

  1. a school of whales
  2. nautical an informal visit between crew members of whalers
  3. NZ a flock of large sea birds

verb gams, gamming or gammed

  1. (intr) (of whales) to form a school
  2. nautical (of members of the crews of whalers) to visit (each other) informally
  3. (tr) US to visit or exchange visits with

noun

  1. slang a leg, esp a woman’s shapely leg
n.

“legs,” 1781, low slang, probably the same word as gamb “leg of an animal on a coat of arms” (1727) and ultimately from Middle English gamb “leg,” from Old North French (see gammon). Now, in American English slang, especially with reference to well-formed legs of pretty women, but this was not the original sense.

n.

“a leg,” 1781, see gams.

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