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In some senses, fam is marked as informal, slang, colloquial, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.
fam
/fæm/
noun 4name 2
Collocations
2VERB + FAM
gonna, visit
FAM + NOUN
doin'
Definitions
noun
1
Clipping of family.
I'm gonna visit the fam.
2
A term of endearment between friends; derived from "family" but not used between relatives.
Hey fam, how you doin'? / Safe mate, safe.
"Cadet, Cadet!" Not every day, fam. Can't you see why it's long? I just wanna get my creps and be gone.
3
Clipping of familiarization.
The tourist board organized fam junkets for travel agents.
She arranged back-to-back fams and took her boyfriend.
name
1
A local language spoken in the Taraba State area of Nigeria.
2
Initialism of Family Division (a subseries of Incorporated Council of Law Reporting's Law Reports).
noun
1
Initialism of federal air marshal.
“I ultimately decided to leave (retire) because I was denied the ability to leverage my experience for the good of the FAMs and I realize that I was part of a system which was putting the emotional well-being of FAMs at risk,” Kathleen Christian, who resigned last year as a clinical psychologist with the federal air marshals, said on Nov. 17 in a scathing email to several marshals.
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I'm gonna visit the fam.
Wiktionary02
Hey fam, how you doin'? / Safe mate, safe.
Wiktionary03
"Cadet, Cadet!" Not every day, fam. Can't you see why it's long? I just wanna get my creps and be gone.
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“I ultimately decided to leave (retire) because I was denied the ability to leverage my experience for the good of the FAMs and I realize that I was part of a system which was putting the emotional we
Wiktionary05
Just do it, fam.
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