Jammer vs Gammer - What's the difference?
jammer | gammer |
Any device used to jam radio reception.
A form of swimwear used by athletes.
* 2001 , Newsgroups: rec.sport.swimming, Mon, 09 Jul 2001 21:39:52 GMT, Subject: Re: Laying out in Myrtle Beach
* 2006 , David West, 140.6 - One Man's Journey: The Metamorphosis from Casual Runner , page 62
* 2007 , Janet Evans, Janet Evans' Total Swimming , page 5
A device (e.g. a jumar) which will slide along a rope in one direction but not the other, used in rock-climbing, caving etc.
(roller derby) A player in who attempts to score points by making their way past other players.
As nouns the difference between jammer and gammer
is that jammer is any device used to jam radio reception while gammer is (obsolete) an old woman.jammer
English
(jammers)Noun
(en noun)- As for me, I wear a dragsuit to the pool, and regular trunks to the beach. In competitions, I wear speedos, but am more comfortable in "jammers ", which is a half-bodysuit.
- In early May, I was starting to swim in jammers which I was not accustomed to or comfortable wearing. I have always thought that wearing spandex is an earned privelege, not a birthright.
- Enter jammers' in the mid-1990s. ' Jammers have the look of biking shorts with skin-tight Lycra covering the thigh to mid-thigh or the knee, depending on the cut.