gam

Definition

A person's leg, especially an attractive woman's leg.

Etymology

From Italian gamba (“leg”). Doublet of gamb, gamba, jamb, and jambe. Compare gammon and ham.

Example Sentences

• "Make the salesclerk blush by flashing some gam and asking him to mix a bucket in your flesh tone."
• "The women's-liberation movement of the late sixties and the seventies – the so-called second wave of feminism – introduced Americans to the notion that their mothers and sisters and daughters ought not to be "objectified": that there was something wrong with reducing female people to boobs, gams, and beaver."