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Meaning of fam | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
fæm

Definitions

  1. Initialism of federal air marshal.
  2. Clipping of family.
  3. A local language spoken in the Taraba State area of Nigeria.
  4. A term of endearment between friends; derived from "family" but not used between relatives.
    Internet, Multicultural-London-English, slang
  5. Initialism of Family Division (a subseries of Incorporated Council of Law Reporting's Law Reports).
  6. Clipping of familiarization.

Equivalents

Français fam
Kurdî fam
Português FAM

Examples

“I'm gonna visit the fam.”
“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.”
“Gotta get more organised, 'cah fam, I hate rushing”
““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.””
“The tourist board organized fam junkets for travel agents.”
“She arranged back-to-back fams and took her boyfriend.”
““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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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