This page gathers the 6,610 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “US” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 25 of 66: from “gam” to “gimp”.
- gam verb To engage in social intercourse anywhere.
- game room noun (by extension) A room in a homestead designated for leisure.
- gander noun A man living apart from his wife.
- gang noun A chain gang.
- gang bang noun A gang fight.
- gangbang noun An act of a street gang committing crimes as a group, such as attacking random people on the streets.
- gangbanger noun A member of a violent gang; a violent person.
- gangbanging noun An act of a street gang committing crimes as a group, such as attacking random people on the streets.
- gangplow noun A plow with multiple plowshares, moldboards, and colters, arranged in a series to turn parallel furrows simultaneously.
- gangway noun The narrow space between two buildings or houses, used to access the backyard/alleyway from the front.
- gap verb To stare or gape.
- gaper noun An inexperienced skier.
- gapers' block noun A traffic jam resulting from motorists slowing to look at a motor vehicle collision or other roadside distraction.
- gar noun Any of several North American fish of the family Lepisosteidae that have long, narrow jaws.
- garbage noun Food waste material of any kind.
- garbage can noun A receptacle, usually roughly cylindrical and wider at the top than at the bottom, which serves as a place to discard waste materials.
- garbage collection noun A service, generally run by local government, for transporting household garbage to the appropriate facility.
- garbage collector noun A worker who removes refuse, especially from properties.
- garbage man noun Someone, usually male, whose job it is to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.
- garbage patch noun A piece of land used for dumping rubbish.
- garbo noun Garbage; something considered worthless.
- garden house noun A privy.
- garfish noun Any North or Central American fish of the family Lepisosteidae.
- garnish noun Cash.
- garpike noun A freshwater fish in the family Lepisosteidae.
- garrison noun A military unit, nominally headed by a colonel, equivalent to a USAF support wing, or an army regiment.
- Garrisonism noun The abolitionist beliefs of William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879), American journalist, suffragist, and social reformer.
- garter belt noun An item of women's underwear consisting of a belt to which are attached garters for holding up stockings.
- gas noun Gasoline, a light derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
- gas and dash verb To commit the act of driving away from a gasoline station without paying after filling one's gas tank.
- gas car noun A car that uses an internal combustion engine instead of electric motors, especially the one fueled by gasoline.
- gas engine noun An internal combustion engine that runs on gasoline; especially, a reciprocating one.
- gas generator noun An electrical generator that runs on gasoline.
- gas lamp noun A lamp that operates by burning gas (gaseous matter), usually illuminating gas (in any of various types).
- gas station weed noun Any preparation of kratom.
- gas up verb To refuel (a vehicle).
- gasoline noun A flammable liquid consisting of a mixture of refined petroleum hydrocarbons, mainly used as a motor fuel; petrol.
- gate lice noun Passengers who crowd around the boarding gate in hopes of being the first in their boarding group or outright attempt to board a plane…
- gate-to-wire adj From start to finish. (Usually used to describe a horse that wins a race by leading throughout, or its victory.)
- gauge noun A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
- gaum verb To smear.
- gavel noun The beginning or end of legal proceedings.
- gay-ass adj Lame; uncool; backwards.
- gaylord noun A large carton that fits on a pallet, used for transporting goods.
- gazookus noun An unspecified item; a thingy or gadget.
- gazump noun An automobile.
- GBU phrase Guided Bomb Unit
- gear shift noun The lever or other interface a human uses to shift gears.
- gedunk noun A snack; a junk food item.
- gee noun A guy.
- gee whiz intj An expression of surprise, enthusiasm, or annoyance: wow or so what?
- geezer noun An old person, usually a male, typically a cranky old man.
- gelatin noun A protein derived through partial hydrolysis of the collagen extracted from animal skin, bones, cartilage, ligaments, etc.
- gender reveal noun An event at which the sex of an expected baby is revealed to family and friends as being either male or female, often by means of a cake…
- general anesthesia noun A type of anesthesia that causes loss of sensation to the whole body, usually to the point of unconsciousness.
- general court-martial noun The most serious type of military trial in the US armed forces, equivalent to a civilian felony court.
- general delivery noun The issuing of postal mail to recipients from a post office counter, rather than by delivering it to their addresses.
- general quarters noun A maximum alert level issued on a warship for all personnel to prepare for immediate combat; the state of a warship at maximum combat…
- generation noun Race, family; breed.
- gentlewoman noun A female member of a legislature, especially a female member of a House of Representatives.
- geo-bach noun Short for geographic bachelor
- geo-bachelor noun Short for geographic bachelor
- geographic bachelor noun A serviceman who voluntarily lives away from his family.
- geography fair noun an education activity in which students create geography-related projects and present to the class using displays, posters, written and…
- George Washington noun The one-dollar bill of the United States of America, which features a portrait of President George Washington.
- german noun A size of type between American and Saxon, 1+¹⁄₂-point type.
- germinal center noun A site in lymph nodes and the spleen where mature B cells proliferate, differentiate, and mutate their antibody genes.
- gesundheit intj Said to someone who has just sneezed.
- get a clue verb To become aware of the obvious reality of a situation, often used as a command to indicate frustration
- get a word in edgewise verb To break into or participate in a conversation, especially where there is much interruption by other speakers.
- get at verb To contact someone.
- get back verb To repay; to return the favor.
- get down verb To use a drug, especially heroin.
- get gay verb To be flippant or impertinent toward someone; to flirt with someone; to make (unwanted) sexual advances [(often) with with ‘someone’].
- get into it verb To fight or argue about something, especially a long-simmering issue; to begin thoroughly attending to a lengthy process or situation.
- get off verb To steal (something) successfully.
- get off on verb To fight (somebody); to win a fight against (someone); to insult or provoke (someone) to a fight.
- get one's freak on verb To have sex.
- get one's head out of one's ass verb To stop being oblivious to the real state of things, to reconnect with reality, to begin paying attention to everything happening around…
- get religion verb To become convinced of something, usually to a fanatic degree.
- get sick verb Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, sick.
- get some verb To have sex.
- get under it verb To sharply steer the other direction (e.g. to switch from right to left) when backing up in order to align a truck straight on with a…
- get up verb To meet with or get to know (someone); to hang out with someone.
- get used verb Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, used.
- get wind in one's jaws verb To have too much to say; talk too much; run at the mouth; to speak one's mind or voice one's opinion about a matter; blabber
- get with the program verb To become organized, current, or aware; to adopt the prevailing viewpoint.
- get-back coach noun A coach who is assigned the task of ensuring another coach (usually the head coach) gets out of the way of the referees during games.
- get-in price noun The total cost, including fees, of the cheapest ticket to an event available anywhere on the market; the lowest price it is possible to pay…
- getup noun Clothes, costume or outfit, especially one that is ostentatious or otherwise unusual.
- ghetto adj Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
- ghetto bird noun A police helicopter, specifically in the context of patrolling or searching impoverished, high-crime urban areas (the ghetto).
- ghost detainee noun A person held in a detention center whose identity has been hidden by keeping them unregistered and therefore anonymous.
- ghost prisoner noun A prisoner not included in official prison records, and not reported to the Red Cross as a detainee.
- ghost ramp noun A highway ramp that is inaccessible to traffic, either because the construction work was never completed, or because it has been taken out…
- GI can noun A galvanized trash can.
- Gibson Girl noun A survival radio transmitter carried by aircraft on over-water operations.
- gig verb To impose a demerit (on someone) for an infraction of a military deportment or dress code.
- gill noun A unit of measure equal to 4 US fluid ounces (half a cup, a quarter of a US pint), approximately 118 milliliters.
- gimp noun Gumption.