In Moby Dick, the social conferencing of two whale ships on the open seas is called a "gam".
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Gam
//ɡæm//
Synonyms for "gam" (65 found)
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4 translations across 4 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 鯨魚群 /鲸鱼群 noun (group of whales)
Esperanto
1 entries- balenaro noun (group of whales)
Finnish
1 entries- parvi noun (group of whales)
Slovak
1 entries- kŕdeľ veľrýb noun (group of whales)
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Make the salesclerk blush by flashing some gam and asking him to mix a bucket in your flesh tone.
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The women's-liberation movement of the late sixties and the seventies – the so-called second wave of feminism – introduced Americans to the notion that their mothers and sisters and daughters ought not to be "objectified": that there was something wrong with reducing female people to boobs, gams, and beaver.
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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.
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