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jammer | mammer |

As a noun jammer

is any device used to jam radio reception.

As a verb mammer is

(rare) to hesitate.

jammer

English

(jammers)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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
    • 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.
  • * 2006 , David West, 140.6 - One Man's Journey: The Metamorphosis from Casual Runner , page 62
    • 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.
  • * 2007 , Janet Evans, Janet Evans' Total Swimming , page 5
    • 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.
  • 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.

    • See also

    * windjammer ----

    mammer

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To hesitate.
    • Tell me, Othello: I wonder in my soul, What you would ask me, that I should deny, Or stand so mammering on'' — Shakespeare, ''Othello .
  • (rare) To mumble or stammer from doubt or hesitation.

    • Derived terms

    *mammery *mammering