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"word": "famalam"
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"word": "fam-bam"
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"word": "fam trip"
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},
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},
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"text": "I'm gonna visit the fam.",
"type": "example"
}
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"Clipping of family."
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"(informal) Clipping of family."
],
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"text": "The tourist board organized fam junkets for travel agents.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "She arranged back-to-back fams and took her boyfriend.",
"type": "example"
}
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"Clipping of familiarization."
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"qualifier": "hospitality industry",
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"(colloquial, hospitality industry) Clipping of familiarization."
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{
"text": "Hey fam, how you doin'? / Safe mate, safe.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2019, Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, Penguin, page 77",
"text": "Yo, Audre, so content warning: My mama is wearing booty shorts—or pum-pum shorts, whatever you call it—doing yoga in the backyard. She is very comfortable with herself and her body and all a that, so you been warned, fam.",
"type": "quotation"
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"A term of endearment between friends; derived from \"family\" but not used between relatives."
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"(slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE, Internet slang) A term of endearment between friends; derived from \"family\" but not used between relatives."
],
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}
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"ipa": "/fæm/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æm"
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"audio": "En-au-fam.ogg",
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"tags": [
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"text": "Audio (AU)"
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],
"word": "fam"
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"English countable nouns",
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"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English three-letter words",
"Rhymes:English/æm",
"Rhymes:English/æm/1 syllable"
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"word": "fam-bam"
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"word": "fam trip"
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"Clipping of family."
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"(informal) Clipping of family."
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"text": "The tourist board organized fam junkets for travel agents.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "She arranged back-to-back fams and took her boyfriend.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Clipping of familiarization."
],
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"familiarization",
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],
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"(colloquial, hospitality industry) Clipping of familiarization."
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
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"examples": [
{
"text": "Hey fam, how you doin'? / Safe mate, safe.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2019, Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, Penguin, page 77",
"text": "Yo, Audre, so content warning: My mama is wearing booty shorts—or pum-pum shorts, whatever you call it—doing yoga in the backyard. She is very comfortable with herself and her body and all a that, so you been warned, fam.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A term of endearment between friends; derived from \"family\" but not used between relatives."
],
"links": [
[
"Internet",
"Internet"
],
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"slang",
"slang"
],
[
"term of endearment",
"term of endearment#English"
]
],
"qualifier": "chiefly African-American Vernacular",
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"(slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE, Internet slang) A term of endearment between friends; derived from \"family\" but not used between relatives."
],
"tags": [
"Internet",
"Multicultural-London-English",
"slang"
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}
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"ipa": "/fæm/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æm"
},
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"audio": "En-au-fam.ogg",
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"tags": [
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],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
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],
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}
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"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE, Internet slang",
"path": [
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"section": "English",
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"title": "fam",
"trace": ""
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"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE, Internet slang",
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