gary

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
8
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/ˈɡæɹ.ɪ/
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/ˈɡæɹ.ɪ/ · /ˈɡæɹ.i/ · /ˈɡɛɹ.i/ · /ˈɡeɹ.i/

Definition of gary

10 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

name

  1. (countable, uncountable)A male given name from the Germanic languages, popular from the 1940s to the 1970s; variant form Garry.
    “Dressed up like a million dollar trooper / Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper”
    “"Gary's an awful name. Whatever he's like. It reminds me of a G.I. man with a crew cut, and 'Mom' tattooed on his chest, and lots of pin-up pictures on his wall."”
    “Call it a brain freeze, another “Aleppo moment,” or a mere campaign stumble, but Gary Johnson has stumbled again in his quixotic presidential campaign.”
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name

  1. (countable, uncountable)A male given name from the Germanic languages, popular from the 1940s to the 1970s; variant form Garry.
    “Dressed up like a million dollar trooper / Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper”
    “"Gary's an awful name. Whatever he's like. It reminds me of a G.I. man with a crew cut, and 'Mom' tattooed on his chest, and lots of pin-up pictures on his wall."”
    “Call it a brain freeze, another “Aleppo moment,” or a mere campaign stumble, but Gary Johnson has stumbled again in his quixotic presidential campaign.”
  2. (countable, uncountable)A surname from Middle English [in turn originating as a patronymic]; variant form Garry.
  3. (countable, uncountable)Numerous places in the United States:
    “Gary, Indiana! ¶ What a wonderful name ¶ Named for Elbert Gary of judiciary fame ¶ Gary, Indiana, as a Shakespeare would say ¶ Trips along softly on the tongue this way--”
  4. (countable, uncountable)Numerous places in the United States:
  5. (countable, uncountable)Numerous places in the United States:
  6. (countable, uncountable)Numerous places in the United States:
  7. (countable, uncountable)Numerous places in the United States:
  8. (countable, uncountable)Numerous places in the United States:
  9. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable)Numerous places in the United States:

noun

  1. Synonym of Gary Glitter (“anus”).
    “He did him up the Gary, he did.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Medieval short form of Germanic compound names beginning with gari or geri ("spear"), such as Gerard, Gerald, or Gerbert. Cognate with the Scottish and Irish name Garaidh. The popularity of the given name in the 20th century is due to the American actor Gary Cooper, whose stage name was invented by his agent, a native of Gary, Indiana.

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