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Definition of in a family way
in a family way 
adjective
- pregnant.
Is your wife in a family way?
- See more words with the same meaning: pregnant.
Last edited on Jan 05 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Feb 15 2010.
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Other terms relating to 'pregnant': | |
| Definitions include: to be pregnant. | |
| Definitions include: pregnant. | |
| Definitions include: pregnant. | |
| Definitions include: abbreviated form of "later", i.e. "goodbye". | |
| Definitions include: "pregnant." | |
| Definitions include: "pregnant". | |
| Definitions include: pregnant. | |
| Definitions include: to impregnate. | |
| Definitions include: "pregnant." | |
| Definitions include: Also the past tense of "knock up". | |
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Other terms relating to 'a': | |
| Definitions include: amphetamine. | |
| Definitions include: the best. | |
| Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting. | |
| Definitions include: sexual activity. | |
| Definitions include: In the West/Central Canadian accent, "about" is pronounced somewhere between "aboot" and "a boat". | |
| Definitions include: a little crazy | |
| Definitions include: an unspecified small number. | |
| Definitions include: Playing around | |
| Definitions include: very common. | |
| Definitions include: a mythical creature who is extremely happy or fortunate. | |
| Definitions include: a non-specified price. | |
| Definitions include: a non-specified price. | |
| Definitions include: to collide with a tree. | |
| Definitions include: an ugly face. | |
| Definitions include: a few drinks of alcohol. | |
Other terms relating to 'family': | |
| Definitions include: "biological family". | |
| Definitions include: "extended" family, sometimes including close friends. | |
| Definitions include: Belonging to a minority e.g. homosexual. | |
| Definitions include: testicles. | |
| Definitions include: See fam. | |
| Definitions include: to masturbate. | |
Other terms relating to 'in': | |
| Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting. | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: involving everyone or everything. | |
| Definitions include: doing something emphatically. | |
| Definitions include: no chance. | |
| Definitions include: something easy. | |
| Definitions include: at some time before the present. | |
| Definitions include: having resumed an activity that one had previously stopped performing. | |
| Definitions include: included. | |
| Definitions include: clitoris. | |
| Definitions include: to intrude. | |
| Definitions include: See barge in. | |
| Definitions include: visible mucus in one's nostrils. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "be back in a bit", i.e. "I will return in a short amount of time." | |
| Definitions include: never. | |
Other terms relating to 'way': | |
| Definitions include: one's home neighborhood. | |
| Definitions include: messed up. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "by the way". | |
| Definitions include: in all directions. | |
| Definitions include: the emergency lights on a car - there are four of them | |
| Definitions include: to succeed. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "I don't like you in that way". | |
| Definitions include: interjection of amazement. | |
| Definitions include: an emphatic "no way". | |
| Definitions include: an emphatic way of saying "no". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "on my way". | |
| Definitions include: near death. | |
| Definitions include: to annoy or anger. | |
| Definitions include: to be bisexual. | |
| Definitions include: to have a particular sexual interest. | |
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