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GAM (gammed, gamming)
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Irregular inflected forms: gammed , gamming
, gamming Dictionary entry overview: What does gam mean?
• GAM (noun)
The noun GAM has 1 sense:
1. a herd of whales
Familiarity information: GAM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A herd of whales
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("gam" is a kind of...):
herd (a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra)
Context examples
When they came opposite our stern, Wolf Larsen greeted them with a wave of the hand, and cried: Come on board and have a ’gam’! “To gam,” among the sealing-schooners, is a substitute for the verbs “to visit,” “to gossip.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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