gary

/ˈɡæ.ɹɪ/

name 5noun 1

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ADJ.

many, older

My older gary uncle used to tell the best stories at family dinners.

VERB + GARY

beat, campaign, like, look, scare, stumble, tried

I really like Gary, even though he can be stubborn sometimes.

GARY + NOUN

busey, cooper, garry, johnson, kasparov, kildall, murtagh, outlet

Gary Kasparov's chess matches against IBM's Deep Blue computer were incredibly intense.

PREP.

in, up, with

I got in gary with my old school friends last weekend.

Definitions

name

A male given name from the Germanic languages, popular from the 1940s to the 1970s; variant form Garry.

Dressed up like a million dollar trooper / Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper

"Gary's an awful name. Whatever he's like. It reminds me of a G.I. man with a crew cut, and 'Mom' tattooed on his chest, and lots of pin-up pictures on his wall."

A surname from Middle English [in turn originating as a patronymic]; variant form Garry.

Numerous places in the United States:

Gary, Indiana! ¶ What a wonderful name ¶ Named for Elbert Gary of judiciary fame ¶ Gary, Indiana, as a Shakespeare would say ¶ Trips along softly on the tongue this way--

Numerous places in the United States:

noun

Synonym of Gary Glitter (“anus”).

He did him up the Gary, he did.

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Gary Glitter

The anus, especially in the context of anal sex.

Just because we like to take it up the Gary Glitter, darling, it doesn't mean we have to grow fat to satisfy the fears of our friends

Example Bank

Dressed up like a million dollar trooper / Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper

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"Gary's an awful name. Whatever he's like. It reminds me of a G.I. man with a crew cut, and 'Mom' tattooed on his chest, and lots of pin-up pictures on his wall."

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Call it a brain freeze, another “Aleppo moment,” or a mere campaign stumble, but Gary Johnson has stumbled again in his quixotic presidential campaign.

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He did him up the Gary, he did.

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Gary found an outlet for his energy in playing football.

Tatoeba · #62614

Gary will have been in Japan for six years next month.

Tatoeba · #62751

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