garms

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noun

clothing

Scrabble 8

Meanings

garms1

noungarms pl (plural only)
  1. Multicultural London Englishpluralplural onlyclothing

    Mr Godfrey elaborates: 'Unlike New York, where violence is operating on its own irrational plane, on he streets of London there are only two reasons for trouble: your "garms or your area.

    1990, "The Bedside "Guardian.", page 338
    2 more examples

    In internet rooms and computer mainframes, there's loads of emails about your mother's blue veins. Not the ones in her legs or the back of her arms, but the ones in her member hidden in her garms.

    2003, “Your Mother's Got a Penis” (track 15)performed by Goldie Looking Chain

    garms - threads, clothes (London and the South-East): Garms is a term short for garments and, although dating back to Old London, is still in use by the capital's teenagers today. Garms that are buff and criss (cool and stylish, or rude) are of course the best (or nang).

    2008 November 28, Susie Dent, How to Talk Like a Local: A National Phrasebook from the Author of Word Perfect

Garms2

proper nounGarms (plural Garmses)

plural Garmses

  1. A surname from German.

Origin

Garms · proper noun

  1. GermanGarms
  2. EnglishGarms

Borrowed from German Garms.

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APA

garms. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/garms

MLA

“garms.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/garms. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “garms,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/garms.

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