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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of gam.

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Examples

  • From that time forward we saw no whales for six weeks, and, from the reports we received from two whalers we "gammed," it appeared that we might consider ourselves most fortunate in our catch, since they, who had been longer on the ground than ourselves, had only one whale apiece.

    The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886

  • Both had served on the Queensland plantations in the old days, and they were known as evil characters wherever white men met and gammed.

    Chapter 7 2010

  • "This what you get [sic] with an affirmative action fraud who has gammed the legal systems all his adult life," wrote one respondent.

    Geoffrey Dunn: Racist Emails on State of Alaska Accounts: A Palin Connection? 2009

  • Both had served on the Queensland plantations in the old days, and they were known as evil characters wherever white men met and gammed.

    A Hard-Bitten Gang 1911

  • Both had served on the Queensland plantations in the old days, and they were known as evil characters wherever white men met and gammed.

    Adventure Jack London 1896

  • We had a gam one day, on this voyage, with a Yankee whale-ship, and a first-rate gam it was, for, as the Yankee had gammed three days before with another English ship, we got a lot of news second-hand; and, as we had not seen a new face for many months, we felt towards those Yankees like brothers, and swallowed all they had to tell us like men starving for news.

    Fighting the Whales 1859

  • We had a gam one day, on this voyage, with a Yankee whale-ship, and a first-rate gam it was, for, as the Yankee had gammed three days before with another English ship, we got a lot of news second-hand; and, as we had not seen a new face for many months, we felt towards those Yankees like brothers, and swallowed all they had to tell us like men starving for news.

    Fighting the Whales 1859

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