gam \GAM\ (verb) - intransitive sense : to engage
in a gam; transitive senses 1 : to have a gam with 2 : to spend or pass (as
time) talking
"The two strangers discovered that they had a lot in common as they gammed the hours away on the long train ride."
Did you know?
"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." So says the narrator, who calls himself Ishmael, of Herman Melville's Moby Dick. We imagine you are also wondering what a gam is, and you're in luck, for you will indeed find "gam" entered in dictionaries today, defined as "a visit or friendly conversation at sea or ashore especially between whalers." (It can also mean "a school of whales.") Melville's narrator explains that when whaling ships met far out at sea, they would hail one another and the crews would exchange visits and news. English speakers have been using the word "gam" to refer to these and similar social exchanges since the mid-19th century.
"The two strangers discovered that they had a lot in common as they gammed the hours away on the long train ride."
Did you know?
"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." So says the narrator, who calls himself Ishmael, of Herman Melville's Moby Dick. We imagine you are also wondering what a gam is, and you're in luck, for you will indeed find "gam" entered in dictionaries today, defined as "a visit or friendly conversation at sea or ashore especially between whalers." (It can also mean "a school of whales.") Melville's narrator explains that when whaling ships met far out at sea, they would hail one another and the crews would exchange visits and news. English speakers have been using the word "gam" to refer to these and similar social exchanges since the mid-19th century.
Charles Mims
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