clams

Noun

clam (plural clams)

1. A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria), hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria), sea clams or hen clams (Spisula solidissima), and other species, possibly originally applied to clams of species Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
   • My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the...1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
2. (historical, in plural) A type of strong pincers or forceps.
3. A kind of vise, usually of wood.
4. (US, in plural, slang) A dollar.
   • Those sneakers cost me fifty clams!
5. (derogatory, slang) A Scientologist.
   • So the clams have John Travolta, Tom Cruise, et al in their hot li'l ol'P-R hands […]1998 February 23, jesparolini, “CO$ Celebrities: USEFUL IDIOTS”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet)
6. (slang, vulgar) A vagina or vulva.

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