gage
Plural: gages
Noun
- street names for marijuana
- a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
- Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
- Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.
- Alternative spelling of gauge (“a measure, instrument for measuring, etc.”).
- A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.
- Marijuana
- A pint pot.
- A drink.
- A tobacco pipe.
- A chamber pot.
- A small quantity of anything.
- A quart pot.
Verb
Verb Forms: gaged, gaging, gages
- To pledge something as security; to measure or test.
- place a bet on
- To bind (someone) by pledge or security; to engage.
- To bet or wager (something).
- To deposit or give (something) as a pledge or security; to pawn.
- Alternative spelling of gauge (“to measure”).
Examples
- He had to gage the risk before playing a word that opened up a triple-word score.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English gage, from later Old French or early Middle French gager (verb), (also guagier in Old French) gage (noun), ultimately from Frankish *waddi, from Proto-Germanic *wadją (whence English wed). Doublet of wage, from the same origin through the Old Northern French variant wage. See also mortgage.
Synonyms
back, bet on, dope, game, gauge, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, punt, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, stake, weed
Scrabble Score: 6
gage: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgage: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
gage: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary