"gamp" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɡæmp/ [General-American], /ɡamp/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gamp.wav Forms: gamps [plural]
Rhymes: -æmp Etymology: After Mrs Sarah Gamp, a character who carried a large umbrella in Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit. Head templates: {{en-noun}} gamp (plural gamps)
  1. (UK, dated) An umbrella. Tags: UK, dated
    Sense id: en-gamp-en-noun-IjQOV5M4 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 87 13 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 51 7 4 17 4 17 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 51 7 4 17 4 17
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ɡæmp/ [General-American], /ɡamp/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gamp.wav Forms: gamps [plural]
Rhymes: -æmp Etymology: From GAMP (“gynandromorphophilia”). Head templates: {{en-noun}} gamp (plural gamps)
  1. (transgender slang) A gynandromorphophile, a tranny chaser.
    Sense id: en-gamp-en-noun-nYH9Frt-
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1900, A. W. Pullin, Talks with old English cricketers, page 169:",
          "text": "It was the last day of the match, and owing to rain it was really unfit to play, but the promoters insisted upon our doing so, to satisfy the spectators, who stood round the ground with their umbrellas up. […] One gentleman sat with his gamp up on some rails near the railway.",
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          "ref": "a. 1954 (date written), Dylan Thomas, “The Holy Six”, in Adventures in the Skin Trade (A New Directions Paperbook; no. 183), New York, N.Y.: New Directions Publishing Corporation, published 1969, →ISBN, page 129:",
          "text": "And it was early morning, and the world was moist, when the crystal-gazer's husband, a freak in knickerbockers with an open coppish and a sabbath gamp, came over the stones outside his house to meet the holy travellers.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1111:",
          "text": "In his hand he waved – an appropriate symbol of disapprobation – his London gamp meticulously rolled.",
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        "(UK, dated) An umbrella."
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