Etymology

chelem

C3H4E1L1E1M3

Today it means: The act or contract for winning all, or almost all, of the possible tricks. Full definition →

French chelem ← English slam
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. English · derived fromslam
  2. French · borrowed fromchelem
  3. English todaychelem

Borrowed from French chelem, from English slam.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.