Clambake

Quick meaning: Clambake is a noun meaning (New England) An informal beach party in which food, usually seafood, is cooked in a firepit dug in the sand, filled with hot coals.

Meaning

(New England) An informal beach party in which food, usually seafood, is cooked in a firepit dug in the sand, filled with hot coals.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) Informal, makeshift, sloppy.
2. (intransitive, slang, chiefly California, Northwestern US) To smoke marijuana in an enclosed space such as a car with the windows up.
3. (transitive, slang, chiefly California, Northwestern US) To enclose something and fill it with smoke by smoking (usually marijuana) inside it.
4. (slang, chiefly California, Northwestern US) An instance of smoking (usually marijuana) in an enclosed space.
5. (slang, vulgar) A meeting of predominantly females.

Example Sentences

2004, New Yorker, 9-16 August not in their Ivy privilege or clambake geography

I've clambaked before, and you'd have to smoke for *hours* to get it that smoky in there.

When I was 16, I used to clambake with these two friends almost every day on the way to school

I was rolling this huge joint in my car and all of the sudden I hear this tapping noise on the passenger door, It was a drudge ravener, So I let him come on in and we clambaked for 3 hours, man it was great.

Word Forms

• clambakes
• clam bake
• clambaking
• clambaked

Synonyms for clambake

Depending on context, synonyms include hotbox.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include clamshell, clam, cataplana, littleneck, fishcamp, coquille.

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