fam

noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal)Clipping of family.

   “I'm gonna visit the fam.”

2. (Internet, Multicultural-London-English, slang)A term of endearment between friends; derived from "family" but not used between relatives.

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

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

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

   ““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.””

3. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial)Clipping of familiarization.

   “The tourist board organized fam junkets for travel agents.”

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

4. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of federal air marshal.

   ““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.”

name

1. A local language spoken in the Taraba State area of Nigeria.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Family Division (a subseries of Incorporated Council of Law Reporting's Law Reports).