"yam yam" meaning in English

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  "categories": [],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_text": "From the local use of \"yow am\" (or \"yow'm\") instead of \"you are\".",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "yam yams",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who speaks the Black Country dialect."
      ],
      "id": "en-yam_yam-en-noun-ZTSJGHHb",
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          "derogatory",
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          "Black Country",
          "Black Country"
        ],
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable, UK, informal, sometimes derogatory) A person who speaks the Black Country dialect."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "countable",
        "derogatory",
        "informal",
        "sometimes"
      ]
    },
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        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "source": "w"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The dialect spoken in the Black Country."
      ],
      "id": "en-yam_yam-en-noun-owUqAPGp",
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          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "dialect",
          "dialect"
        ],
        [
          "Black Country",
          "Black Country"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, informal, uncountable, sometimes derogatory) The dialect spoken in the Black Country."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "derogatory",
        "informal",
        "sometimes",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "yam yam"
}

{
  "categories": [],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "yam"
      },
      "expansion": "yam",
      "name": "l"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "yum yum"
      },
      "expansion": "yum yum",
      "name": "l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Unknown. Perhaps from yam or yum yum.",
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    {
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        "1": "-"
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      "expansion": "yam yam (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 May 15, Anahad O'Connor, Never Shower in a Thunderstorm: Surprising Facts and Misleading Myths About Our Health and the World We Live In, page 70",
          "text": "You may have seen it during the never-ending repeats of Seinfeld. Elaine has a bagel or two for breakfast, takes a drug test for work, and the next day finds out she tested positive for opium - “You know, white lotus. Yam-yam. Shanghai Sally,” her boss, Mr. Peterman, tells her.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Alexei Sayle, Stalin Ate My Homework",
          "text": "In the episode with Robert Duvall, Buz revealed that in the past he had his own problems with the White Horse, the Brown Sugar, the old Yam Yam, which seemed like a really cool thing to me.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Heroin."
      ],
      "id": "en-yam_yam-en-noun--HFk22IR",
      "links": [
        [
          "Heroin",
          "heroin#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable, colloquial) Heroin."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "yam yam"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_text": "From the local use of \"yow am\" (or \"yow'm\") instead of \"you are\".",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "yam yams",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English informal terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who speaks the Black Country dialect."
      ],
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        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
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          "Black Country",
          "Black Country"
        ],
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          "dialect"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable, UK, informal, sometimes derogatory) A person who speaks the Black Country dialect."
      ],
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        "UK",
        "countable",
        "derogatory",
        "informal",
        "sometimes"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "British English",
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English informal terms",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The dialect spoken in the Black Country."
      ],
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          "dialect"
        ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, informal, uncountable, sometimes derogatory) The dialect spoken in the Black Country."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "derogatory",
        "informal",
        "sometimes",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "yam yam"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "yum yum"
      },
      "expansion": "yum yum",
      "name": "l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Unknown. Perhaps from yam or yum yum.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
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      "expansion": "yam yam (uncountable)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 May 15, Anahad O'Connor, Never Shower in a Thunderstorm: Surprising Facts and Misleading Myths About Our Health and the World We Live In, page 70",
          "text": "You may have seen it during the never-ending repeats of Seinfeld. Elaine has a bagel or two for breakfast, takes a drug test for work, and the next day finds out she tested positive for opium - “You know, white lotus. Yam-yam. Shanghai Sally,” her boss, Mr. Peterman, tells her.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Alexei Sayle, Stalin Ate My Homework",
          "text": "In the episode with Robert Duvall, Buz revealed that in the past he had his own problems with the White Horse, the Brown Sugar, the old Yam Yam, which seemed like a really cool thing to me.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Heroin."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Heroin",
          "heroin#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable, colloquial) Heroin."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "yam yam"
}