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See also: clam bake
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]clambake (plural clambakes)
- (New England) An informal beach party in which food, usually seafood, is cooked in a firepit dug in the sand, filled with hot coals.
- 2015 July 10, Alexandria Symonds, “How to Throw a Clambake Like You’re From Rhode Island”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- In Newport, R. I., the clambake is more than just a way to pass a summer afternoon; it’s a beloved New England tradition that locals take very seriously. […] Traditionally, a clambake involves building a fire pit, coating the hot rocks and coals with seaweed and cooking a mélange of treats — lobsters, clams, sausage, potatoes, corn on the cob — topped with a wet tarp.
- (slang, chiefly California, Northwestern US) An instance of smoking (usually marijuana) in an enclosed space.
- Synonym: hotbox
- (slang, vulgar) A meeting of predominantly females.
- Synonym: taco fest
Adjective
[edit]clambake (not comparable)
- (figurative) Informal, makeshift, sloppy.
- 2004, New Yorker, 9-16 August
- not in their Ivy privilege or clambake geography
- 2004, New Yorker, 9-16 August
Verb
[edit]clambake (third-person singular simple present clambakes, present participle clambaking, simple past and past participle clambaked)
- (intransitive, slang, chiefly California, Northwestern US) To smoke marijuana in an enclosed space such as a car with the windows up.
- 1999 November 13, Jozlyn, “clam bake?”, in alt.drugs.pot[3] (Usenet):
- i love clmabaking..it's been so long since ive done it though..i remember once my friends and i were clambaking at the forest preserve in the car and this ranger comes along so we roll all the windows down and there was like a huge cloud floating over the car.
- 2000 April 11, Mrs. P, “weirdest feleling ever”, in alt.drugs.pot[5] (Usenet):
- recently i went on a camp out with a bunch o friends and we packed one of the biggest blunts ive ever had. i think it was about 6 grams. this thing was huge. we smoked it between like 4 people, and afterward, when we were all sittin in the clambaked tent, the kid across from me was glowing...
- 2000 June 27, Vacas Relic, “Re: Symptoms that you are playing too much AC”, in microsoft.public.games.zone.asherons_call[6] (Usenet):
- I was rolling this huge joint in my car and all of the sudden I hear this tapping noise on the passenger door, It was a drudge ravener, So I let him come on in and we clambaked for 3 hours, man it was great...
- (transitive, slang, chiefly California, Northwestern US) To enclose something and fill it with smoke by smoking (usually marijuana) inside it.
- We clambaked the car last night!
Synonyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “clambake n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
- “clambake v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
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