Meanings
plural Nammers
- slangA Vietnamese person.
"Nammers?" She'd told him before of some Vietnamese gang pressuring her to stroll for them. "Don't even ask. You don't want to know."
1998, Joseph Ferone, Boomboom, page 242 more examples
She placed the skaters at one end of the school, writing “hot guys” beside their name, and the Nammers or Vietnamese group in another corner, writing “cool kids” beside their name.
2008, S. Pomerantz, Girls, Style, and School Identities: Dressing the Part, page 67For example, in Canada, Dillabough and Kennelly (2010) found that Vietnamese girls developed a subcultural style identified as the 'Nammers' associated with spandex clothing […]
2015, T. Barber, Oriental Identities in Super-Diverse Britain, page 175
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Nammer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Nammer
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