gen

Plural: gens

Noun

• Informal term for information, especially secret or inside knowledge.
• informal term for information
  • "give me the gen on your new line of computers"
• Information.
• Information about the location of a bird.
• Fan fiction that does not specifically focus on romance or sex.
• Alternative letter-case form of Gen (“member of the Gen Movement”).
• A generator (device that converts mechanical to electrical energy).
• A shilling.
• A generation (group of people born in a specific range of years).
• A specific version of something in a chronological sequence.

Verb

• To generate using an automated process, especially a computer program.
• To genetically engineer.

Examples

• He always had the inside GEN on which two-letter words were highest scoring in Scrabble.

Synonyms

genfic, genny

Related Words

gen up, genned in