See fam in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2019, Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, Penguin, →ISBN, 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.”",
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