Meanings
garms1
- 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 3382 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 Chaingarms - 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
Origin
Garms · proper noun
- GermanGarms
- EnglishGarms
Borrowed from German Garms.
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garms. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/garms
“garms.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/garms. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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