Fam
name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Clipping of family. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
"I'm gonna visit the fam."
- 2 Initialism of federal air marshal. US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
"“I ultimately decided to leave (retire) because I was denied the ability to leverage my experience for the good of the FAMs and I realize that I was part of a system which was putting the emotional well-being of FAMs at risk,” Kathleen Christian, who resigned last year as a clinical psychologist with the federal air marshals, said on Nov. 17 in a scathing email to several marshals."
- 3 A term of endearment between friends; derived from "family" but not used between relatives. Internet, Multicultural-London-English, slang
"Hey fam, how you doin'? / Safe mate, safe."
- 4 Clipping of familiarization. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
"The tourist board organized fam junkets for travel agents."
- 1 A local language spoken in the Taraba State area of Nigeria.
- 2 Initialism of Family Division (a subseries of Incorporated Council of Law Reporting's Law Reports). abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Example
More examples"Hey fam, how you doin'? / Safe mate, safe."
Etymology
Abbreviations * (family, term of endearment): Clipping of family * (familiarization): Clipping of familiarization
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.