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gal (gal)

noun

Slang a girl or woman
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gal (gal)

noun

a unit of acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second: used in gravimetry

Etymology: < Gal(ileo)

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gal

gallon(s)
Gal definition

Gal

Galatians

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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

gal Usage Examples

Preposition: from

  • work: So, I went to the Greek festival today with four of the gals from work.

Converse of object

  • get: One gets the gunman, but the other gets the gal.

Adjective modifier

  • old: I still remember the numbers you see, not bad for an old gal.

Modifies a noun

  • pal: Now, a single gal pal wants a baby.

Noun used with modifier

  • alpha: PPL's cloned piglets, all female, have one of their two alpha gal genes knocked out.
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gal quotes

A slap-up gal in a bang-up chariot.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

I often think it's comical How Nature always does contrive That every boyand every gal That's born into the world alive Is either a little Liberal Or else a little Conservative!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)

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