fam

plural fams

1. abbreviationclippinginformalClipping of family.

   I'm gonna visit the fam.

2. InternetMulticultural London Englishslangchiefly African-American VernacularA term of endearment between friends; derived from "family" but not used between relatives.

   Hey fam, how you doin'? / Safe mate, safe.

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   "Cadet, Cadet!" Not every day, fam. Can't you see why it's long? I just wanna get my creps and be gone.

   2017, “Uber Everywhere Freestyle 2”performed by Cadet (rapper)

   Gotta get more organised, 'cah fam, I hate rushing

   2019, “Going Through It” (track 6), in Ignorance Is Bliss, performed by Skepta

   “Yo, Audre, so content warning: My mama is wearing booty shorts—or pum-pum shorts, whatever you call it—doing yoga in the backyard. She is very comfortable with herself and her body and all a that, so you been warned, fam.”

   2019, Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, Penguin, →ISBN, page 77

3. abbreviationclippingcolloquialhospitality industryClipping of familiarization.

   She arranged back-to-back fams and took her boyfriend.

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   The tourist board organized fam junkets for travel agents.

1. A local language spoken in the Taraba State area of Nigeria.
2. abbreviationinitialismlawInitialism of Family Division (a subseries of Incorporated Council of Law Reporting's Law Reports).

plural FAMs

1. USabbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of federal air marshal.

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   “I ultimately decided to leave (retire) because I was denied the ability to leverage my experience for the good of the FAMs and I realize that I was part of a system which was putting the emotional well-being of FAMs at risk,” Kathleen Christian, who resigned last year as a clinical psychologist with the federal air marshals, said on Nov. 17 in a scathing email to several marshals.

   2018 April 25, Ron Nixon, “Scandals and Investigations, but Few Arrests, for Air Marshals Program”, in The New York Times