Gams or Gam definition

This was in usage especially in the 1920s and 1930s and 1940s in the U.S.

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plural noun: gams

1. a leg, especially in reference to the shapeliness of a woman's leg.

   "she slowly and methodically revealed one of those glorious gams"

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Why are legs called gams?

"legs," 1781, low slang, probably the same word as gamb "leg of an animal on a coat of arms" (1727) and ultimately from Middle English gamb "leg," which is from French (see gammon ). Now, in American English slang, especially with reference to well-formed legs of pretty women, but this was not the original sense.

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