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gams
From late 1800s British, A leg, esp a womans leg. Most often in the plural: "regarding her superb gams with affection" - V Faulkner, etc. [perhaps from Italian 'gamba' or Northern French 'gambe', "leg".] AMERICAN SLANG, Robert Chapman
see also
pins, get-away sticks

gangbanger
1: -n- member of a gang
2: -n- gangster involved in fight with other gangsters

gay
Gayboy goes back to 1903. Gay to refer to prostitutes and loose livers goes back to early 1800s. Gay specifically meaning 'male homosexual' goes back to 1933, but a 1944 quote mentions it as a word used by homosexuals to refer to themselves, so the usage may date back before 1933. [Jeane Moore, Fido WORDS echo]
      GAY has had senses dealing with sexual conduct since the 17th century. A gay woman was a prostitute, a gay man a womanizer, a gay house a brothel. GAY as an adjective meaning homosexual goes back at least to the early 1900s. After World War II, as social attitudes toward sexuality began to change, GAY was applied openly by homosexuals to themselves, first as adjective and later as noun. Today, the noun often designates only a male: gays and lesbians. The word has ceased to be slang and is not used disparagingly. [I can't agree with this; I've often heard school-age kids use gay when they're name-calling. ] HOMOSEXUAL as a noun is sometimes used only in reference to a male. [Random House Webster's]
      The 20th century sense 'homosexual,' which first came into general usage in the 1950s, seems to have arisen from an earlier American slang term gay cat, which originally denoted a young male tramp who was the companion of an older tramp. The implications of a homosexual relationship which this carried had led by the 1930s to the use of gay cat for any young male homosexual, and the application of gay to 'homosexual' was probably generalized from this. [Arcade Dictionary of Word Origins]

geedunk
[USN] -n- snack bar, snack vending machine, snack vending kiosk

geek
The term "geek" strictly referred to a carnival performer specializing in gross-out (the canonical example is biting the head off a live chicken). Nose-pickers and chalk- and paste-eaters are primary-school level examples of geeks. [alt.english.usage, Aug 96]

geize
driving or running extremely fast [NFI]

gender
"Voter" and "killer" are already masculine in a sense -- English shares with German the capacity to form agents from verbs, and the -er suffix is the masculine agent label for one who votes or one who kills. The -ess or -ster suffixes (seamstress, spinster, baxter) are the feminine forms. [DM, FIDO Words conference, Nov 95]

I personally think DM's reasoning is somewhat outdated. Yes, there was a time when the -er/-ster distinction was retained. This ended literally centuries ago in many cases, including the word "baxter". As time goes on, more and more agent words are being joined together: one often hears "actor" for females, and you almost never hear "comedienne" anymore. Even "waitress" has given way in many places to "server" (why they couldn't just call them all "waiters" I don't know, but I only report these things). Even though the person you speak to after pressing "0" on your telephone is generally female, you've always spoken to the operator, not the operatrix or operatster. And in any case, the distinction seems mostly to have only been applied to actual professions, not to nonprofessional actions such as "voter" and "killer" (a notable distinction here is "seductress", but this is one of the few instances where gender *is* noteworthy). In any case, I would say that today the -er suffix is used gender-neutrally often enough to say that regardless of any gender-related implications it may have had in times past, it is today a totally gender-neutral suffix in all but a handful of specific instances. [Scott Rhodes, FIDO Words conference, Nov 95]

generica
fast-food joints, strip malls, subdivisions; We were so lost in generica that I couldn't remember what city it was. [July 97, from an e-mail]

gerpin
trying to find a date [1995, Knight-Ridder News Service]

gestapo
(GEheime STaatsPOlizei)

get-away sticks
legs; Nice get-away sticks on that girl. see also
pins, gams

get off
1: orgasm, used by men as get my rocks off
2: -vt- with "on," to enjoy, to like: I get off on that kind of music.

get over
1: -vi- to avoid work; compare with
cluster fuck, skate

go
transmission fluid; named by inhalent abusers; huffing go [alt.usage.english, Aug 95]

going to Europe
to vomit ; interestingly, Russian slang for vomit, ekhat' na Rigu, means going to Riga

go postal
gone crazy; from the sensational view that post office workers very often become violently sociopathic [MAD TV, Nov 95]

goob
a silly or goofy person; usually used affectionately, 1980-99; possibly from the character Goober on The Andy Griffiths Show

good googly-moogly!
expression of surprise; compare shit fire!

gorp
trail mix; name is possibly an acronym [granola, oats, raisins, peanuts] [FIDO Words conference, Dec 95]

gouge
gossip; I heard some good gouge last weekend; I heard this usage twice in the same day by two different people [Aug 97]

go send a penny
[Brit] use the bathroom

growler
to defecate; usually an especially satisfying circumstance

gun bunny
[USA] -n- soldier who works with artillary

gunner
a warrant officer in the Marine Corps; from the days when Marines, not sailors, manned the guns aboard naval vessels; warrant officers are also properly addressed as mister by those who don't know better, but those who do know better are expected to use gunner.

Guppy
[mil] T-43 transport, a Boeing 727 conversion used primarily by the Air Force, first heard at Buckley ANGB from an Instructor Pilot

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