Gamp
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 An umbrella. UK, dated, slang
"It was the last day of the match, and owing to rain it was really unfit to play, but the promoters insisted upon our doing so, to satisfy the spectators, who stood round the ground with their umbrellas up. […] One gentleman sat with his gamp up on some rails near the railway."
- 2 A gynandromorphophile, a tranny chaser.
- 3 Abbreviation of gynandromorphophilia. abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
- 4 colloquial terms for an umbrella wordnet
Example
More examples"It was the last day of the match, and owing to rain it was really unfit to play, but the promoters insisted upon our doing so, to satisfy the spectators, who stood round the ground with their umbrellas up. […] One gentleman sat with his gamp up on some rails near the railway."
Etymology
After Mrs Sarah Gamp, a character who carried a large umbrella in Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit.
From GAMP (“gynandromorphophilia”).
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