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noun ɡamɡæm informal A leg, especially a woman's. 〈非正式〉（尤指女子的）腿 she slowly and methodically revealed one of those glorious gams Example sentencesExamples - One spread in the first issue reads, ‘She knows how to play up those gorgeous gams and big brown eyes with the latest relaxed and layered styles.’
- My old gams look much better in hose, obviously.
- Our gams endure countless hours of bending, squatting, cycling and walking, all courtesy of the knees.
- At 5'11 ’, she was genetically blessed with great gams.
- She gives the interview while wearing a rather short skirt, and she has really nice gams.
- His gaze lowers and takes in her legs beneath the table, as gorgeous a set of gams as he's ever seen.
- She is love-interest Polly Perkins, a very Lois Lane-like reporter with a nose for trouble, a nice set of gams, and a rocky history with the dashing Captain.
- Now as connoisseurs of female gams will attest, female calves, like the rest of the female form, can range from slim to curvy.
- Sure enough, there he is: check out those silky-smooth gams.
- Framed by the bottom seam of his white trunks and the tops of his white socks and boxing slippers, they were the equivalent of her legendary gams.
- The Dolphins have the more powerful running gams with him, but the Giants' offense has much better balance.
- Kudos as well to Gordon whose pipes and gams were in fine form on opening night, giving a stellar spin on this seminal musical theatre role.
- What better spokesperson for landmine awareness than a foxy mama with shapely gams?
- In Men with Arrows, a tousle-haired youngster ponders the cleavage and shapely gams of his young mom as she squats to pick up laundry; behind them hover images of an upscale tract home and a Mercury capsule parachuting into the sea.
- She sings and shows a lot of cleavage (well, as much as was allowed at the time) and a clinging black sequined gown accents her shapely gams.
- Showcase your fabulous gams in this treasure of a boot by Christian Louboutin.
- When this chap seated himself, with his long out-stretched legs, I realized that his gams were quite close in proximity, to yours truly.
OriginLate 18th century: probably a variant of the heraldic term gamb, which denotes a charge representing an animal's leg, from Old Northern French gambe 'leg'. Rhymesam, Amsterdam, Assam, Bram, cam, cham, cheongsam, clam, cram, dam, damn, drachm, dram, exam, femme, flam, glam, gram, ham, jam, jamb, lam, lamb, mam, mesdames, Omar Khayyám, Pam, pram, pro-am, ram, Sam, scam, scram, sham, Siam, slam, Spam, swam, tam, tram, Vietnam, wham, yam noun ɡamɡæm 1rare A school of whales, porpoises, or dolphins. whalers never passed right by a gam of whales 2US dialect A social meeting or informal conversation (originally one among whalers at sea).
OriginMid 19th century: origin uncertain; perhaps from dialect gam 'game', or shortened from gammon3. nounɡamɡæm informal A leg, especially in reference to the shapeliness of a woman's leg. she slowly and methodically revealed one of those glorious gams Example sentencesExamples - What better spokesperson for landmine awareness than a foxy mama with shapely gams?
- When this chap seated himself, with his long out-stretched legs, I realized that his gams were quite close in proximity, to yours truly.
- His gaze lowers and takes in her legs beneath the table, as gorgeous a set of gams as he's ever seen.
- Our gams endure countless hours of bending, squatting, cycling and walking, all courtesy of the knees.
- Kudos as well to Gordon whose pipes and gams were in fine form on opening night, giving a stellar spin on this seminal musical theatre role.
- She is love-interest Polly Perkins, a very Lois Lane-like reporter with a nose for trouble, a nice set of gams, and a rocky history with the dashing Captain.
- Framed by the bottom seam of his white trunks and the tops of his white socks and boxing slippers, they were the equivalent of her legendary gams.
- Sure enough, there he is: check out those silky-smooth gams.
- In Men with Arrows, a tousle-haired youngster ponders the cleavage and shapely gams of his young mom as she squats to pick up laundry; behind them hover images of an upscale tract home and a Mercury capsule parachuting into the sea.
- She sings and shows a lot of cleavage (well, as much as was allowed at the time) and a clinging black sequined gown accents her shapely gams.
- My old gams look much better in hose, obviously.
- Now as connoisseurs of female gams will attest, female calves, like the rest of the female form, can range from slim to curvy.
- One spread in the first issue reads, ‘She knows how to play up those gorgeous gams and big brown eyes with the latest relaxed and layered styles.’
- She gives the interview while wearing a rather short skirt, and she has really nice gams.
- Showcase your fabulous gams in this treasure of a boot by Christian Louboutin.
- The Dolphins have the more powerful running gams with him, but the Giants' offense has much better balance.
- At 5'11 ’, she was genetically blessed with great gams.
OriginLate 18th century: probably a variant of the heraldic term gamb, which denotes a charge representing an animal's leg, from Old Northern French gambe ‘leg’. nounɡamɡæm 1rare A school of whales, porpoises, or dolphins. Example sentencesExamples - 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.
2US dialect A social meeting or informal conversation (originally one among whalers at sea). Example sentencesExamples - On the high seas, ships whose paths crossed held a gam, during which the men exchanged news, jokes, out-of-date periodicals, letters to be forwarded, and tales of the occasional bull sperm whale who head-butted his persecutors instead of dying quietly.
- Crews normally visit each other during a gam, captains on one vessel and chief mates on the other.
OriginMid 19th century: origin uncertain; perhaps from dialect gam ‘game’, or shortened from gammon. |