gams

Noun (1)

gam (plural gams)

1. (dated, slang) A person's leg, especially an attractive woman's leg.
   • Make the salesclerk blush by flashing some gam and asking him to mix a bucket in your flesh tone.2010, Home Swell Home: Designing Your Dream Pad, →ISBN, page 19

Noun (2)

gam (plural gams)

1. (collective) A group of whales, or rarely also of other large sea animals; a pod.
   • Upon getting into a "gam" of whales, this boat, together with that of one of the mates, pulled for a single whale that was seen at a distance from the others, and succeeded in getting square up to their victim unperceived.1862, Henry Theodore Cheever, The Whalemen's Adventures in the Southern Ocean, Darton & Hodge, page 116
2. (broadly) A social gathering of whalers (whaling ships).
   • But what is a Gam? You might wear out your index-finger running up and down the columns of dictionaries, and never find the word, Dr. Johnson never attained to that erudition; Noah Webster’s ark does not hold it. Nevertheless, this same expressive word has now for many years been in constant use...1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 53”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

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