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Definition of WAM

WAM

  • acronym for "walking-around money". That is: pocket money, spending money.
    I need to ask Mom for some WAM.
    • See more words with the same meaning: money.

    Last edited on Jun 13 2013. Submitted by Kathleen H. from Arlington, TX, USA on Jan 22 2002.

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Other terms relating to 'money':

Definitions include: a quarter.
Definitions include: one hundred dollars.
Definitions include: ten pounds sterling.
Definitions include: money.
Definitions include: counterfeit money.
Definitions include: money.
Definitions include: a ten dollar bill.
Definitions include: someone's hidden savings, usually of money or drugs.
Definitions include: money.
Definitions include: skins/skinheads.
Definitions include: abbreviated form of "okay".
Definitions include: very good, excellent, interesting, fun, etc.
Definitions include: short for "gangster" or "gangsta."
Definitions include: money.
Definitions include: money.

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Other terms relating to 'around':

Definitions include: the bathroom.
Definitions include: one's home neighborhood.
Definitions include: to waste time.
Definitions include: to delay in getting to the point.
Definitions include: experienced.
Definitions include: to be lazy.
Definitions include: to act like a clown; to joke.
Definitions include: acronym for "cash rules everything around me".
Definitions include: to cruise (drive) around.
Definitions include: to be joking.
Definitions include: to spend time on a non-productive activity; "waste time".
Definitions include: to waste time, to mess around.
Definitions include: to intentionally show off an item.
Definitions include: to engage in intimate sexual activities; "mess around".
Definitions include: to cheat on one's significant other.

Other terms relating to 'money':

Definitions include: a small amount of money, usually no more than to buy a few groceries
Definitions include: money.
Definitions include: money earned or obtained illegally.
Definitions include: said of a competition or betting situation, the person who the speaker believes will obviously be the victor.
Definitions include: counterfeit money.
Definitions include: to be wealthy.
Definitions include: to make a lot of money.
Definitions include: suave; "hip", "cool".
Definitions include: a person focused on acquiring money.
Definitions include: buttocks.
Definitions include: the climax of a sex scene in pornography, especially when the man ejaculates on his sex partner's face.
Definitions include: see money shot.
Definitions include: to waste one's money.
Definitions include: money used to start a business.
Definitions include: to have a lot of money.

Other terms relating to 'walk':

Definitions include: a person prone to accidents.
Definitions include: something easy.
Definitions include: something easy.
Definitions include: a person who shows off themselves in a strutting manner, a swagger.
Definitions include: the walk performed when wearing saggy pants and holding them up by the crotch.
Definitions include: Someone in prostitution, a street walker, someone offer their body on the street for sex for money
Definitions include: to perform a particular dance created by the Crips gang.
Definitions include: to be kicked out of a relationship.
Definitions include: a trip on foot while smoking a J or joint, i.e a hand-rolled marijuana cigarette.
Definitions include: the act of walking while smoking a hand-marijuana cigarette or a J.
Definitions include: The humiliating public appearance under police arrest of some prominent or wealthy person, usually while being walked to a criminal law proceeding, such as an arraignment.
Definitions include: a non-sailor; someone without sea legs.
Definitions include: A person (or persons) waving "sales theme signs" with arrows at entrances to major highways or at corners of high traffic intersections directing customers to a sale.
Definitions include: a prostitute.
Definitions include: male masturbation.

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