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fam

/fæm/

fam noun: a term of endearment between friends; derived from "family" but not used between relatives. Also the clipping of family.

Noun (1)

fam (plural fams)

  1. (Internet, Multicultural-London-English, slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular) A term of endearment between friends; derived from "family" but not used between relatives.
    • Hey fam, how you doin'? / Safe mate, safe.
    • "Cadet, Cadet!" Not every day, fam. Can't you see why it's long? I just wanna get my creps and be gone.2017, “Uber Everywhere Freestyle 2”performed by Cadet (rapper)

Proper noun capitalized: Fam

Fam

  1. A local language spoken in the Taraba State area of Nigeria.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Family Division (a subseries of Incorporated Council of Law Reporting's Law Reports).

Noun (2) capitalized: FAM

FAM (plural FAMs)

  1. (US, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of federal air marshal.
    • “I ultimately decided to leave (retire) because I was denied the ability to leverage my experience for the good of the FAMs and I realize that I was part of a system which was putting the emotional well-being of FAMs at risk,” Kathleen Christian, who resigned last year as a clinical psychologist...2018 April 25, Ron Nixon, “Scandals and Investigations, but Few Arrests, for Air Marshals Program”, in The New York Times

Also used as

fam is also the clipping of family.

fam is also the clipping of familiarization.

Examples of fam in a sentence

  • Gotta get more organised, 'cah fam, I hate rushing2019, “Going Through It” (track 6), in Ignorance Is Bliss, performed by Skepta:
  • She is very comfortable with herself and her body and all a that, so you been warned, fam.”2019, Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, Penguin, →ISBN, page 77:

Forms of fam

pluralfams
pluralFAMs

Origin of fam

Abbreviations * (family, term of endearment): Clipping of family * (familiarization): Clipping of familiarization

Words formed from fam

Phrases with fam

Words that rhyme with fam

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Questions about fam

What does fam mean?
Fam means a term of endearment between friends; derived from "family" but not used between relatives.
How do you use fam in a sentence?
Gotta get more organised, 'cah fam, I hate rushing
What part of speech is fam?
Fam can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce fam?
Fam is pronounced /fæm/.
What is the plural of fam?
The plural of fam is fams.

Words near fam in the dictionary

  1. falxes
  2. Falzarano
  3. Falzaranos
  4. Falzone
  5. Falzones
  6. fam
  7. fam bam
  8. fam bams
  9. fam flight
  10. fam trip
  11. fam trips

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fam (page history and authors); Fam (page history and authors); FAM (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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