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Meaning of fam | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
/fæm/

Definitions

  1. Initialism of federal air marshal.
    US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  2. Clipping of family.
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
  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).
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  6. Clipping of familiarization.
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial

Equivalents

Français 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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