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gamp

UK/ɡamp/ US/ɡæmp/ uncommon dated slang uk

noun

1.

colloquial terms for an umbrella

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Origin

After Mrs Sarah Gamp, a character who carried a large umbrella in Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit.

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