fam n.2
1. (US black/gay/teen) the family.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Queens’ Vernacular 79: fam 1. family ‘Maybe I’ll go straight someday and raise me a fam.’. | |
| ‘I’m Outstanding’ 🎵 If they can’t say Shaquille O’Neal then make ’em scream, ‘Shaq!’ / Like the fam’ do, in the stands who / When I freak the funk on a dunk they, ‘Ahhh! Oooh!’. | |
| Source Aug. 100: How did it affect your fam when you were getting into so much trouble? | |
| Finders Keepers (2016) 254: Her big brother was really the one sending cash to keep the fam afloat. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Crongton Knights 2: The social services offered Bit’s fam a flat. | |
| Boy from County Hell 170: ‘Your momma ain’t going back to her fam’. | |
| Empty Wigs (t/s) 745: [A] readymade sink estate... the council dump for the prob-fams... the underachievers... the workshies. |
2. (US gay) a large number [ext. of sense 1].
| Queens’ Vernacular 79: fam [...] 2. the whole shebang; a bunch. |
3. used as term of address to a friend.
| Corruption Officer [ebk] cap. 39: ‘Yo, Gee, what’s good? I need you, fam’ [...] I responded, ‘Say no more, I got you, fam’. | |
| Independent 5 Jan. 🌐 Many other [teenage] words belong to MLE—multi-ethnic or multicultural London English— [...] Among the most pervasive are bruv, mate, bare, fam, gwop, or peas (money), and chirpsin’, linkin’, and lipsin’—flirting, dating, and kissing respectively. | |
| UNC-CH Campus Sl. Spring 2016 4: FAM — < family close friend, family member: ‘Hey, fam, I missed you over break’ . | |
| ‘Corn on the Curb’ 🎵 Mad pressures from every angle, fam. | |
| Who They Was 5: Tyrell says swear down fam? | |
| Razorblade Tears 156: ‘You don’t listen too well, do you, fam?’. |