gammy

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This is why my gammy can resell her Oxy’s and it’s all nice and legal.

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Quick take

Injured, or not functioning properly (with respect to legs).

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

Injured, or not functioning properly (with respect to legs).

noun

(colloquial) Grandmother.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for gammy.

adjective

Injured, or not functioning properly (with respect to legs).

noun

(colloquial) Grandmother.

Example sentences

This is why my gammy can resell her Oxy’s and it’s all nice and legal.

In my country we say that it is easier to catch a liar than a gammy person.

No amount of rose-tinted blitz spirit is going to help with those gammy-knees, dicky-tickers, and bad-backs if it comes to the rough stuff.

Your average grandmother by the way (in the 70s), wasted 50% as much food as the average American wastes today so it might be worth a follow-up conversation with gammy about why that was.

What about pushchairs, wheelchairs, the elderly, people with walking sticks, shopping trolleys, arthritis, gammy knees, people carrying heavy shopping or wheeled luggage?

You don't exercise enough because your knee is a bit gammy (perhaps requiring physiotherapy or knee surgery), your cholesterol is high, cancer is spotted six months later than necessary because you thought your dodgy stomach or sore throat was just something minor, etc, etc.

Quote examples

Gimp was first used in the 1920's, possibly as a combination of limp and gammy, an old slang word for "bad."

Like my Gammy said, “If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we’d all have a merry Christmas.” And if you gave my Gammy immortality, she would’ve just smoked more cigs and played more nickel slots.