Gam

Quick meaning: Gam is a noun meaning Collective noun used to refer to a group of whales, or rarely also of porpoises; a pod.

Meaning

Collective noun used to refer to a group of whales, or rarely also of porpoises; a pod.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) A social gathering of whalers (whaling ships).
2. (nautical, ambitransitive) To pay a social visit on another ship at sea.
3. (US, dialect) To engage in social intercourse anywhere.
4. (slang, dated) A person's leg, especially an attractive woman's leg.

Example Sentences

Make the salesclerk blush by flashing some gam and asking him to mix a bucket in your flesh tone.

If time was available, whaling prospects poor, and the weather gentle, a gam might last all day and include tea and dinner.

Breakfast was interrupted as a gam of porpoises surrounded the Argyle, swaying in the foam and singing in gurgles and beeps.

There is still that yearning for news from Nantucket that there was when the whale-ships stopped for a gam out in the far-distant Pacific Ocean […]

Word Forms

• gams
• gamming
• gammed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gambling, play, jag, mag, movement, leg.

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