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Gamp

//ɡæmp// noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    A gynandromorphophile, a tranny chaser.
  3. 3
    Abbreviation of gynandromorphophilia. abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
  4. 4
    colloquial terms for an umbrella wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

After Mrs Sarah Gamp, a character who carried a large umbrella in Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit.

Etymology 2

From GAMP (“gynandromorphophilia”).

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