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  • garden eel
    See GOLDEN EEL.
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  • garden eddy
    [cf. OED garden applied to vegetables with the sense 'cultivated or growing in a garden', often distinctively opposed to wild, + EDDY]
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  • garb-fish
    [cf. DM guard-fish idem; from gar-fish by hypercorrection] n, a garfish; any fish with long, beak-like jaws. (Eleu.)
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  • garbage collector
    n. one who rummages through trash looking for useful items. (Eleu)
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  • gap seed: pick up gap seed
     (Black); catch gap seed (Exuma) [cf. 1811 D VT gapeseed sights, any­thing to feed the eye: "I am come abroad for
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  • gang
    [cf. US Black gangster marijuana (Major); probably from ganja] n. marijuana, Cannabis sativa. (Nassau)
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  • game come
    v. phr. the game is over (said in playing marbles). (Black)
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  • game
    See RUN A GAME.
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  • Gambier
    [probably after John Gambier, Governor 1758-60 (Craton 1962:145)] n. a village west of Nassau said to have been settled by liberated slaves
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  • gambee
    See GOOMBAY.
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