| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  g m |
| NOUN: | 1. A social visit or friendly interchange, especially between whalers or seafarers. 2. A herd of whales or a social congregation of whalers, especially at sea. See synonyms at flock1. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: gammed, gam·ming, gams
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To hold a visit, especially while at sea. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To visit with. 2. To spend (time) talking or visiting. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Perhaps short for gammon2or variant of game1.
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