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gamp

/ɡamp/US/ɡæmp/

gamp noun: an umbrella.

Noun (1)

gamp (plural gamps)

  1. (UK, colloquial, dated) An umbrella.
    • One gentleman sat with his gamp up on some rails near the railway.1900, A. W. Pullin, Talks with old English cricketers, page 169
    • Number one swung lourdily her midwife's bag, the other's gamp poked in the beach.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 3: Proteus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 38

Noun (2)

gamp (plural gamps)

  1. (transgender slang) A gynandromorphophile, a tranny chaser.

Noun (3) capitalized: GAMP

GAMP (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of gynandromorphophilia.

Forms of gamp

pluralgamps

Origin of gamp

After Mrs Sarah Gamp, a character who carried a large umbrella in Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit.

From GAMP (“gynandromorphophilia”).

Words that rhyme with gamp

8 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about gamp

What does gamp mean?
Gamp means an umbrella.
What part of speech is gamp?
Gamp is a noun.
How do you pronounce gamp?
Gamp is pronounced /ɡæmp/ (US).
What is the plural of gamp?
The plural of gamp is gamps.

Words near gamp in the dictionary

  1. gamosteles
  2. gamostelic
  3. gamostely
  4. Gamow factor
  5. Gamow factors
  6. gamp
  7. gamphoside
  8. gampi
  9. Gampis
  10. Gampish
  11. gamps

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