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- noun informal
Family - noun colloquial, hospitality industry
Familiarization . - noun UK, slang Term of endearment between friends; derived from "family" but not used between relatives.
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Examples
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(I grew up in Utah and my whole fam is still there, but now live on the East Coast) I would pitch in for sure for the Wii on the big screen. joN.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Everything about the Utah Spiderman III Event 2007
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One year my SIL didn't make it; I mentioned it and 3 of my BILs went out on Christmas day to get the ingredients and made a potful (being spoiled by my Mexican fam is yet another thing I love about them).
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That means he must be related to Jason Patric’s fam from the first movie.
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In the best-regulated o 'fam'lies things will go askew, I'm aweer;
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 9, 1891 Various
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But I on'y git to be 'nouncer one time, 'cause Fanny tellin' me nex 'fam'ly have dinnuh-potty make heap o' fun.
Seventeen 1915
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'E wus awskin' me, "'Ow would you like men to st'y at' ome and do the 'fam'ly washin'?"
The Convert 1907
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Elvira don't waste much time swappin 'fam'ly greetin's.
Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907
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He had steadied down for a while, too, until he took a sudden notion to slope and leave his interestin 'fam'ly behind.
Torchy, Private Sec. Sewell Ford 1907
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I on'y git to be 'nouncer one time, 'cause Fanny tellin' me nex 'fam'ly have dinnuh-potty make heap o' fun.
Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Booth Tarkington 1907
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Somehow Henry got his case before Mr. Robert, and that's how I was sent scoutin 'out to see if all this about a sufferin' fam'ly was a fairy tale or not.
Torchy As A Pa Sewell Ford 1907
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